Biography

The author was born in Santa Catarina State, south of Brazil. He recently worked as a Research Visitor to the University of Florida, Center for Wetland, Department of Engineering, working in energetic modelling. He works as a researcher and project coordinator for the non-profit Ekko Brazil Institute. The academic background is constituted by a Bachelor of Science in Oceanography obtained at the Federal University of Rio Grande, completed in 1986. He completed a master’s degree in hydroecology from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, which was completed in 1990. Carvalho then moved to Scotland and England, where he received a British Council Scholarship Award. He then received an M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management at Newcastle University, which he completed in 1993. The author obtained a scholarship from the Australian government, Flinders University, and CNPq-Brazil, for a Ph.D. degree in Physical Oceanography at Flinders University in 2000. Carvalho obtained another master’s degree in project management from the Senac University in Brazil in 2012. The author has also professional experience working for the Environment Foundation of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil from 1986 to 1992. Since 2000, when he returned to Brazil, Carvalho Junior has lectured and researched in various private and public universities in the courses of oceanography, biology, biotechnology, ecology, and environmental engineering. Junior was responsible for implementing the first Latin America Scientific Breeding Center, for research and recovery of animals from the Mustelidae family. Over the past decade, he has engaged in animal research both in captivity and in the wild, in two significant Brazilian biomes: the Coastal Zone of Atlantic Forest and the Pantanal wetland. During his professional and academic career, the author has received several awards, such as the Professional Talent award in 2012, Expression in Ecology award in 2008, and he was appointed to the Brazilian Immortal Prize in 2008.