BRAZILIAN DATABASE ON
ANTARCTIC SOILS AND
PERMAFROST
Felipe N. B. Simas
D.S. Student – Soil Science
Prof. Carlos Schaefer
Project Coordinator
Cryosol Project
INSTITUTION:
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
2002-2005 – first soil science project
of Brazilian Antarctic research.
Supported by:
MMA/ CNPq / Brazilian Navy
TEAM:
Prof. Dr. Carlos Ernesto Schaefer – Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Liovando da Costa – Vice-Coordinator
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Dr. Luiz Eduardo Dias – Heavy metals
Dr. Eduardo de Sá Mendonça – Organic matter
Dr. Elpídio Inácio Fernandes Filho - Geoprocessing
Dr. Wander de Freitas Melo – Mineralogy
Dra. Miriam Abreu Albuquerque – Microbiology
Walter Abraao – Sulfide mineralization
Márcio Rocha Francelino – D.S
Felipe Bello Simas – D.S. Student
Manoel Ricardo A. Filho – D.S. Student
Joao Herbert Viana – D.S. Student
Italo – D.S. Student
Letuzia – M.S. Student
Roberto Michel – M.S. Student
Activities:
• Soil, geomorphology and terrestrial environment
mapping in Admiralty Bay;
• Aerophotographic survey/georreferencing;
• Ornithogenic soils;
• Bioremediation experiments;
• Heavy metal contamination;
• Carbon stocks and dynamics;
• Pedogenesis;
• Melting water monitoring;
• Sulfide oxidation;
• Soil-vegetation relationships.
DATABASE
- > 75 soil pits – chemical, physical, mineralogical and
micromorphologial characteristics;
- Aerial photographs;
- background levels for heavy metals in soils and
sediments;
- Carbon Stocks;
- Plant composition;
- Water parameters;
- Microbiological isolation, bioremediation of hydrocarbons
- Georreferenced database;
- Tematic mapping (soils, vegetation, geomorphology,
pollution, etc.);
- Permafrost depth;
- Digital Image Database
Aerial Photographs:
-Hasselblad 530 EX;
-suport adaptation;
-Altitude and speed control - 60% overlapping along the
line and 40% between lines - Stereoscopy;
-99 ground control points;
-Lenses calibration;
-Digital mosaics
Projeto Criossolos
Modelo utilizado – 553EX
Modelo adquirido - métrica
Projeto Criossolos
Arigony Neto, 2001
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THANK YOU!!
Contacts:
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