Brazilian Mangroves and Salt Marshes / Brazilian Marine Biodiversity (PDF)

Prof. Dr. Yara Schaeffer-Novelli has a major in Natural History from Universidade do Brasil, actual Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1967). She also holds a Master's Degree in Biological Oceanography from Universidade de São Paulo (1967), and a PhD in Zoology from the same university (1976). In 1991, she became a Full Professor at the Oceanographic Institute of the Universidade de São Paulo. She teaches at the same institute since 1970, where in 1980 she started her research line on coastal environments, focusing on Brazilian and Latin American mangroves. Between 1992 and 1995, she worked as the head coordinator of research at the São Paulo State Environmental Secretariat. Furthermore, she was part of the core faculty at the Rockefeller Foundation LEADP Institute. Currently she still teaches on graduate level, mainly about the mangrove environment. Further ongoing activities include supervision of graduate and post-graduate students, and a chair in the Brazilian Wetlands National Committee (Comitê Nacional de Zonas Úmidas), as part of the Ramsar Convention requirements. Her major research interests include biogeography, structure and function, restoration, and economic valuation of mangroves.

Gilberto Cintrón-Molero is a system ecologist. He has worked on the application of system approaches to the management of coastal environments in Latin America and the Caribbean. As a member of UNESCO's SCOR Working Group 60 he developed rapid resource assessment methodologies for mangroves, and for WWF developed a manual on coral reef rapid assessment techniques. He is the author of the chapter on mangrove restoration in NOAA's "Restoring the Nation's Marine Environment" and a related chapter on the East West Center's Handbook for Mangrove Area Management. An Army veteran, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), the largest biomedical research institution of the Defense Department. He has been consultant to USAID,