Biography
Dhalton is a biologist, with a graduate certificate in environmental management and both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Ecology (University of Brasilia and University of Rio Grande do Norte, respectively). After working in the Amazonian Manatee Project as a research trainee and taking a course on Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Costa Rica, he joined the Brazilian National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA) as a water resources specialist in 2006. At ANA he has been involved in activities such as the analysis of aquaculture projects, management of hydrologic monitoring networks, and application of orbital remote sensing to the monitoring of water level and water quality in rivers and reservoirs.
He is majorly interested in Remote Sensing, Geoprocessing, Limnology, Hydrological Monitoring, and Computer Programming. Currently, he is responsible for the technical activities of the HidroSat Project, a partnership between ANA and the National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD, France) which focuses on satellite-based hydrological monitoring.
