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Dr. James Hansen

Dr. James Hansen has a B.S. in General Tropical Agriculture (1985) and an M.S. in Agronomy and Soil Science (1989), both from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering (1996) from the University of Florida. He is currently an Assistant Scientist at the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida. Dr. Hansen's research interests include the agricultural applications of seasonal climate prediction, agricultural systems analysis and modeling, applications of process-level crop simulation models to agricultural systems for land use evaluation, risk analysis, and optimization of management, and the management and stochastic generation of weather data for simulation applications.

Contact Information:

University of Florida
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
P.O. Box 110570
Gainesville, FL 32611-0570

Telephone: 1.352.392.3505
Fax:: 1.352.392.4092
e-mail: jhansen@agen.ufl.edu

Mr. Carlos Messina, M.S. (Mini-project instructor)

Carlos Messina has a B.S. in Agronomy (1996) and a M.S. in Vegetal Production (1999), both from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1998/99, Mr. Messina received an IAI/GEF Fellowship to conduct collaborative research at the Universities of Miami and Florida, interacting with researchers participating in a project partially supported by IAI's ISP-2 program. He is currently involved in a Ph.D program at the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida. Mr. Messina's research interests include crop modeling, applications of climate forecasting to agriculture, and agricultural systems analysis and modeling.

Contact Information:

University of Florida
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
P.O. Box 110570
Gainesville, FL 32611-0570
e-mail: messina@ifeva.edu.ar

Dr. Edison Heredia-Calderón

Edison Heredia-Calderón has a Master of Engineering degree in Water Resources Technology (Free University of Brussels, Belgium, 1993), and a Doctor of Research degree (Ph.D.) in Hydrology (Universities of Florence, Genoa, Padua and Trent, Italy, 1997). Dr. Heredia has been involved on the study of hydrologic extremes. This included Hydrologic Forecasting systems and Frequency Analysis of floods as well as Hydraulics and Water Resources. He currently works at the National Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (INAMHI) in Ecuador. His current activities are focusing two main projects, namely the study of floods, especially those related with "El Niño" events (INSEQ project), and the multidisciplinary study of the Amazon basin, including geology, hydrology and water quality, as well as the effects of ENSO on the Amazon climate regime.

Contact Information:

Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología
Iñaquito 700 y Corea
Quito, Ecuador
Telephone: 593.2.469.932
Fax:: 593.2.265.330
e-mail: edheredi@inamhi.gov.ec

Dr. Remigio H. Galarraga-Sánchez

Dr. Remigio H. Galarraga-Sánchez is a Civil Engineer (1981) with a major in Hydraulics (Escuela Politécnica Nacional - EPN, Ecuador). He also holds a Master's Degree (1987) from the University of Iowa (USA) in Hydraulics and Water Resources and a Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Arizona (USA) with a major in Hydrology and a minor in Civil Engineering. He was Executive Director of Ecuador's National Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (INAMHI). Currently, he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hydraulics and Water Resources and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Water Resources at EPN. He also is member of the Ecuadorean National Committee for the Inter American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

His research interests include hydrometeorological studies of high altitude meteorological stations to identify climate variability and El Niño, time and spatial analysis of aerial photography for global change studies in the Chimborazo mountain, and disaster prevention studies for the city of Bahía de Car quez (severely damage during the El Niño 1997-1998). He is Co-PI in the IAI project on Hydrology and Biogeochemistry in the Amazon Region.

More information about Dr. Galarraga's activities can be found at http://unisig.epn.edu.ec/civil/html/ADMINIST/PADHID.HTM

Contact Information:

Escuela Politécnica Nacional
Departamento de Hidráulica y Recursos Hídricos
San Cristobal 565
Quito, Ecuador

Telephone: 593.2.228.113
Fax:: 593.2.563.077
e-mail: remigala@mail.epn.edu.ec

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