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Curricular Briefing
Professor Sênior. Meteorologist (IPE-Paraná, Brazil). Under graduation in Natural History and MSc
in Life Sciences (Entomology) (UFPR, Brazil). Graduation in geology and geomorphology of quaternary (UFPR).
Doctor (PhD) by the University
of Kansas (EUA). He
works in insect (especially bees) ecology, behavior and taxonomy. He
participated of scientific expeditions to some South American countries,
especially in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. He has been surveying
the life history of bees and other organisms in the Brazilian Amazonian
region several time. In 1964, with the British
scientist W. D. Hamilton, he did an expedition through cerrado
(savanna) up to the Brazilian Amazonian region, in an old Jeep Willys. He had the opportunity to make extended field
work also with the Japonese ecologist Shôichi Francisco Sakagami,
as well as with the Norman Lee Marston (USDA),
Theodore Bertis Mitchell (North Caroline), the
Australian entomologist Paul MacFadyen and.the Canadian (working at Barbados) applied
entomologist Freddy Bennett. He has approximately sixty scientific articles
published in several countries, including Japan,
France, Italy, United
States, Mexico
an.d Brazil. He expended a good part
of his life teaching disciplines such as entomology, ecology and nature
conservation to under graduate students of agronomy, veterinary, medicine.
In graduate (PhD and MSc) course of life science
(entomology), he advised several PhD and MSc
thesis at the University
of Paraná.
He is the head Editor of Acta Biológica
Paranaense (Biological Sciences Sector, UFPR, Curitiba,
Brazil). He
has also written a book on basic ecology, and participate
(as representative of the University
of Paraná)
in the revision of the British Encyclopaedia
(Brazilian version). He received distinctions, as well as the
National Prize of Ecology [CNPQ, CVRD, PETROBRAS, MININT (SEMA)]
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