Dr. Sandra Costa

• Assistant Professor, Universidade do Vale do Paraiba(UNIVAP) in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
• ACT Visiting Researcher
• Ph.D., Spatial Information, School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, 1996.
• M.A., Remote Sensing, National Institute on Space Research, Brazil, 1989.
• B.S., Geography, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 1985.
• Research Interests: urban growth and environmental degradation, urban land-use analysis, intra-urban modifications, Government urban policies, Social changes of cities.

Maria Dos Anjos Gonçalves Costa

• Ph.D. Student in Agronomy/Horticulture, University Sao Paulo State. School of Science Agronomy, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2004-2008
• Master's Degree in Agronomy/Horticulture, University Sao Paulo State. School of Science Agronomy, UNESP-FCA Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2004-2008
• Course of Biodynamic Agriculture. Elo Institute, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• B.s., Agronomy - Federal University of Lavras, Minas Gerais, 1999.
• Research Interests: Ethnobotany, Ethnoecology, Human Ecology, Rural Participant Research, Medicinal Plants.

Gilvan Ramalho Guedes

• Ph.D. Student, CEDEPLAR/University of Minas Gerais, 2005-2009
• M.B.A. in Finance, CUNP/University Center at Minas Gerais, 2005
• Specialization in Time Series and Cluster Analysis, Quantitative Methods/University of Minas Gerais, 2004
• B.S., Economics, CUNP/University Center at Minas Gerais, 2003
• Research Interests: Household demography, formal demography, microeconomics of the family, mortality/morbidity, health economics, microsimulation techniques.

Humberto Alves

Humberto Alves, a doctoral candidate at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) at the time of his visit with us, was granted a CNPq "sandwich" scholarship to work with members of this science team for a one-year period (2000-2001).

Marina Campos

Marina Campos, was a doctoral student at Yale University at the time of her visits. She visited ACT on two occasions in recent years to work with ACT researchers on a plan for research development on sustainable agriculture and development in Altamira, PA.

Juliana De Souza Cardoso

Juliana de Souza Cardoso, a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais at the time of her visit, undertook a very intense program during her six-month visit to ACT in 2005, which included auditing graduate courses in archeology, and linguistics, and undertaking a demanding program of readings in cultural ecology and ethnoecology linked to her key questions in linguistics and archeology.

Larissa Chermont

Larissa Chermont, a student pursuing a Ph.D. degree at London School of Economics, U.K., visited the Indiana University for three weeks in 2001. During this time she received training in GIS and remote sensing and collaborated with the ACT team on the preparation of a survey research protocol to be used in her research in Santarém, and returned for a second visit to work on some chapters of her dissertation.

Natalia Hanazaki

Natalia Hanazaki spent two months at ACT for training at the Indiana University in 2001. She also worked on the final chapters of her dissertation and collaborated with Dr. Emilio Moran in a joint paper. Dr. Moran served on her dissertation defense as an outside member of her doctoral committee at Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil.

Luciana Miranda Costa

Luciana Miranda Costa, a Ph. D. student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), visited ACT for a three-month period in 2005 training under the supervision of Dr. Eduardo Brondizio.

Marcos Pedlowski

Marcos Pedlowski, Associate Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (Northern Fluminense State University) in Brazil, visited ACT in 2001 to discuss comparative research across Altamira and Rondonia and a collaborative program with LBA projects.

Anders Siren

Anders Siren, as a Ph.D. student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, came to ACT for two visits in 1998 and 2002 to work with Dr. Brondizio. Anders works in Eastern Ecuadorian Amazon.

Robert Netting

Robert Netting (deceased) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and spent a year at ACT acquiring skills in GIS and remote sensing to develop a new project in Africa in 1994. A devastating cancer led to his untimely death in 1995. He was one of the leaders of Cultural Ecology for decades.