Experience
Director
of Marine Research, Senior Researcher
Company Name: Florida International
University / ALTAMETRY
Dates Employed: Jan 2014 - Present
Location: Miami, Florida, USA
Nelson
Melo is in charge at ALTA Systems and Florida International University to
develop of high-resolution Remote Sensing applications to Coastal Oceanography.
http://altametry.com/
ALTA
is a smart balloon which flies without fuel, or pilot to unreachable places,
where it transmits images, and/ or other data to any internet screen. In one hour ALTA can deliver thousands of images from multiple
perspectives, of the highest resolution, from the lowest angles, at the lowest
cost. ALTA is the smallest, greenest earth imaging system in the world. This
technology has been applied to marine research and marine environmental
monitoring.
Research
A. Senior
Company Name: Cooperative Institute for
Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS); University of Miami.
Miami, Florida, United States of America.
Dates Employed: Jan 2001 - Dec 2013
Employment Duration13 yrs.
Location: http://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/ https://www.rsmas.miami.edu/
The Cooperative Institute for Marine and
Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) is a research institute of the University of Miami
located in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS).
CIMAS serves as a mechanism to bring together the research resources of the
University with those of NOAA in order to develop a center of excellence in
research that is relevant to understanding the Earth's oceans and atmosphere
within the context of the NOAA's mission.
The scientific activities in CIMAS are organized under broad Research Themes.
The Theme topics and their scientific objectives are guided by NOAA's Strategic
Plan and its specific goals in the context of the research activities and
expertise resident in the University and the local Miami laboratories of
NOAA.
Senior
Oceanographic Researcher
Company Name: Atlantic Oceanographic and
Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) ; National Oceanographic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Dates Employed: Jan 2001 - Dec 2013
Employment Duration13 yrs.
Location: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/;
The
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is one of the
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Facilities of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA/AOML is a part of the US Department of
Commerce (DOC) and is in Miami, Florida. AOML's mission is to conduct basic and
applied research in oceanography, tropical meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic
chemistry, and acoustics. The research seeks to understand the physical
characteristics and processes of the ocean and the atmosphere, both separately
and as a coupled system.
Researcher
and Vice Director
Company Name: Instituto de Oceanografia (Habana, Cuba)
Dates Employed1995 - 1999
Employment Duration: 4 yrs.
https://www.ecured.cu/Instituto_de_Oceanolog%C3%ADa
Director
of the Division of Research and Environment; Head of the Research Group in Marine
Remote Sensing; Principal Investigator of the International Project with the
European Space Agency (ESA): Integrated study of coastal environment in Cuba
using satellite SAR - ERS imagery (AO3-126). Research Investigator.
Education
University
of South Florida
Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Field of Study: Remote Sensing - Physical
Oceanography
Dates attended or expected
graduation1998 - 1999
Dissertation
Title: Characterization of oceanographic parameters and phenomena around the
island of Cuba from thermal and color space images of the sea. University of
South Florida (USF), USA. (In P.).
Habana University
Degree
Name: Master
Field
of Study: Nuclear Physics - Oceanography
Dates
attended or expected graduation 1973 - 1978
Master of Physical
Sciences, Thesis Title: Mossbauer Effect in Cuban Magnetites
(1978).
Obtained at the Physics Faculty, University of Havana, Cuba.
Oceanography postgraduate university courses in general oceanography (16
months).
Hydrography Cuban Institute, Cuba; Institute of Oceanography (Shirchov) Moscow; Russia. Institute of Oceanography, Sofia,
Bulgaria.
Marine Remote Sensing postgraduate courses (18 months).
Institute of Oceanography (Shirchov) Moscow, Russia;
Institute for Cosmic Research, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Oceanography,
Rootstock, Germany; Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela; University
of Chile, Santiago, Chile; University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fl,
USA.
Science and computer instrumentation postgraduate courses (22 month).
Mathematics Faculty, Havana University, Cuba, Institute of Oceanography (Shirchov) Moscow, Russia; Institute for Cosmic Research,
Berlin, Germany; University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Fl., USA.