Lucietta Guerreiro Martorano is an Agrometeorology researcher. She holds degrees in Meteorology (Federal University of Pará, 1982) and Agronomy (Federal Rural University of the Amazon, 1987), with a Master's from ESALQ/USP (1998) and a PhD from UFRGS (2007). Her early professional career included work at the State Secretariat of Agriculture of Pará from 1983 to 1989. In 1990, she joined the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) through a public examination, where she developed her research career, including a management position as supervisor of the Technology Transfer Center (NAPT/Embrapa in Santarém, Pará) from October 2021 to January 2025. Since February 2025, on secondment to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), she has been collaborating with the team at the National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) in Brasília. Among her national and international research projects, the "IrrigaPote Project" stands out for receiving Technology Social recognition from Banco do Brasil in 2024. Recently, she was awarded a CNPq Research Productivity Fellowship. Martorano developed the methodology for Topoclimatic Zoning for native species with a focus on the Amazon. She is a permanent professor in postgraduate programs (BIONORTE Network and PPGSND/UFOPA). She is a member of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Meteorological Society, a reviewer for scientific journals, and a member of the LBA Program Scientific Committee and the Embrapa ODS Network.
Silvio Brienza Junior graduated in Forest Engineering from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP) in 1978, has a Master's in Soil and Plant Nutrition from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV) in 1988, and has a Ph.D. in Tropical Agriculture from the Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany (1999). They served as a professor in the Doctoral Program in Agricultural Sciences at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA) from 2001 to 2012 and collaborated in the Master's Program in Environmental Sciences at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). Since May 1979, they have been a researcher at Embrapa in the Amazon region, leading multiple projects, including studies on innovative production systems in the Amazon biome and sustainable forest restoration, in collaboration with institutions such as the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Vale Fund, and the Amazon Foundation for Research Support (FAPESPA). From 2013 to 2017, they served as Head of Technology Transfer at Embrapa Eastern Amazon. They also contributed to the development of the Native Species Silviculture Research Program for the Amazon and Atlantic Forest biomes. In 2020, they relocated to Embrapa Forests in Curitiba-PR, focusing on research related to native forest species. Their expertise includes productive forest restoration, forest plantations, agroforestry systems, and family farming.
Jose Reinaldo da Silva Cabral de Moraes has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Agronomy (Crop Production) from São Paulo State University (UNESP), Jaboticabal, and holds a B.Sc. in Agronomy from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA). From July 2018 to July 2020, he served as a Substitute Professor at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (IFMS), Naviraí Campus. He also works as an ad hoc consultant for research projects and collaborate as a reviewer for national and international journals. He is a member of several CNPq research groups, including Study Group in Agrometeorology (GAS), Environmental Restoration, Climate Change and Valuation of Natural Assets, Natural Resources and Agricultural Technologies, and Study Group in Soils and Cultivated Plants (GESP). He has participated in research projects at the Department of Agrometeorology at Embrapa Eastern Amazon and at UFRA. He has extensive experience in Agronomy, with emphasis on Agrometeorology, working on the following topics: Agrometeorological Modeling, Geoprocessing and Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Geostatistics, and Precision Agriculture. He is a specialist in the agricultural insurance sector, working in the development of new products and technologies for agroclimatic parametric insurance, as well as in climate risk management and the assessment of agroclimatic impacts on agricultural losses.
He holds degrees in Agricultural Sciences and Agronomy from the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), where he interned in the Phytopathology Laboratory and was a PIBIC/UFOPA research fellow, focusing on cassava disease diagnosis in Santarém, Pará. He participated in the agrometeorological database project for precision agriculture and credit support (FADESP scholarship). He served as a teaching assistant for Agricultural Experimentation and General Agriculture in 2018 and 2019. In 2019, he joined the National Temporary External Academic Mobility Program (PROEN/UFOPA) at the Federal University of Uberlândia, gaining skills in applied statistics using R. He was awarded a PIBIC/EMBRAPA fellowship by CNPq and received recognition for outstanding performance. He earned a master’s degree in Sciences with a focus on Statistics and Agronomic Experimentation from ESALQ/USP and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the same program, contributing significantly to the field.
Leila Sheila Silva Lisboa is a research in the field of Geotechnologies and Sciences. She holds degrees in Mathematics (Federal University of Pará, 1998), with a Master's in Computer Engineering—Area of Concentration: Geomatics—from UERJ (2008) and a Ph.D. in Sciences from ESALQ/USP (2011-2015). She served as a professor in the undergraduate Program in Environmental Engineering at the State University of Pará (UEPA) in the discipline of Spatial information systems from 2015 to 2016. She was a scholarship holder of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) from 2009 to 2012. She has been collaborating with the team at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in Santarém, Pará in "IrrigaPote Project" and Topoclimatic Zoning for native species with a focus on the Amazon, among others.
Denison Lima Correa works in the fields of Geotechnologies and Forest Sciences, with an emphasis on Geomatics. He holds a technical degree in Surveying from the Federal Institute of Pará and a Forest Engineering from the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. He served as a substitute professor at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon during the periods of 2014–2016 and 2018–2020. Since 2019, he has also been a professor at the State University of Pará, teaching subjects in the forestry field, such as Dendrometry, Forest Management, Silviculture, Forest Inventory, among others. He earned his PhD in Biodiversity and Biotechnology in 2024 and will complete a degree in Civil Engineering in 2025 from the University of the Amazon.
Thiago Martins Santos holds a degree in Forest Engineering from the State University of Pará (UEPA, 2021), a Master's in Technology, Natural Resources, and Sustainability in the Amazon (UEPA, 2023), and is currently pursuing a PhD in Forest Engineering at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), focusing on Forest Ecology. His research addresses dendrochronology and dendrochemistry applied to the assessment of atmospheric pollutants and environmental changes in Amazonian forest ecosystems. He also holds a postgraduate degree in Geoprocessing (2022) and an MBA in Data Science and Analytics from the University of São Paulo (USP/ESALQ, 2024), combining forestry knowledge with geospatial analysis and data science. Thiago has experience in academic research, forest management, and environmental monitoring, with participation in projects related to sustainable forestry, growth modeling, and identification of potential areas for forest species cultivation, such as Dipteryx odorata (Cumaru). He has collaborated with research institutions such as ICMBio and UEPA and contributed to scientific publications, congresses, and capacity-building activities in forestry and environmental sciences.
Rafael Fausto de Lima is an agronomist and holds a master's degree in Agronomy (Plant Production) from the postgraduate program in plant production at UNESP in Jaboticabal/SP. He was an Agronomist from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso do Sul, IFMS, Brazil. He was a scholarship holder in the Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBIC -CNPQ/IFMS) from 2019-2022. During his master's degree, he received a scholarship from the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP). He has experience with scientific publications of articles, abstracts, and book chapters in national and international journals, relating climate to agriculture. He is an agronomic data scientist with experience in calibrating machine learning models for predicting harvests, pests, and diseases in various agricultural crops.
Kaio Ramon de Sousa Magalhães is a Forest Engineer who graduated from the Federal University of Western Pará (2017–2023). During his undergraduate studies, he worked as a research fellow on various projects, later serving as a PIBIC/CNPq-Embrapa fellow with the project titled: Population diagnosis compared with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in native açaí groves in Murumuru, Santarém-PA. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), focusing on dendrochronology research.
Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias is an Agronomist with a degree from the Federal University of Ceará (1983), a Master's degree in Agronomy (Statistics and Agronomic Experimentation) from the University of São Paulo (1988), and a PhD in Agronomy (Statistics and Agronomic Experimentation) from the University of São Paulo (1996) with post-doctoral studies at Exeter University—England (2001). He did a free lecture at the University of São Paulo (2005), receiving the title of Associate Professor. He is currently a full professor at the “Luiz de Queiroz” School of Agriculture, Department of Exact Sciences (since 2009). He was a visiting professor at the Department of Soils (2019-2020) and the Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics (2023-2024) at the Federal University of Ceará. He has experience in Experimental Statistics, with an emphasis on Multivariate Analysis, working mainly on the following topics: AMMI Models, Eigenvalue Correction, Multivariate Simulation, Multiple Imputation, and Biplot. He is the leader of the research group “Additive main effects and multiplicative interaction models - AMMl” and a 1D productivity grant holder, both at National Council for Scientific and Technological Development—CNPq-Brazil. He has been a member of the editorial board and statistical reviewer for the Journal Ciência Agronômica da UFC since 2009 and a member of RBRAS—Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society.