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Marcos Longo

Research Scientist

Building 084, Room 0136

M/S 74R316C

mlongo@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Marcos Longo is a research scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Marcos’ main research interest is to understand the impacts of climate and land use change on tropical forest ecosystems. His current research focuses on integrating airborne and spaceborne lidar (GEDI), field measurements, and process-based terrestrial biosphere models to quantify the impacts of both human (logging, fires) and natural disturbances (droughts) on productivity, evapotranspiration, and energy fluxes of tropical forests. He is also interested in improving the representation of structural and functional diversity of tropical forests in terrestrial biosphere models.  He is part of the DOE’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments – Tropics (NGEE-Tropics) project and a co-investigator in the GEDI competed science team.

Prior to joining LBNL, Marcos was a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.  Marcos received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences at University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.

Education

  • Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2014
  • M.Sc, Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2003
  • B.Sc, Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2000

Experience

  • Research Scientist, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, LBNL, 2021-Present
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 2017-2021
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), 2014-2017
  • Graduate Research Associate, University of São Paulo, 2003-2005

Awards and Fellowships

  • 2022 LBNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (Role: Principal Investigator)
  • 2020 NASA-ROSES2020 Land Cover/ Land Use Change (Role: Co-Investigator)
  • 2020 NASA-ROSES2020 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team (Role: Co-Investigator)
  • 2017 NASA postdoctoral fellowship, Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
  • 2015 Postdoctoral fellowship, São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP)
  • 2014 Postdoctoral fellowship, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
  • 2008 Graduate student fellowship, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)
  • 2008 Teaching Fellow Award, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • 2005 International graduate student fellowship, CNPq
  • 2001 M. Sc. student fellowship, FAPESP
  • 2001 Academic Honour Award for Outstanding Performance, University of São Paulo
  • 2000 Academic Performance Award, São Paulo Council for Engineering and Agronomy (CREA-SP)
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