Prof. Dr. Reinaldo Luiz Bozelli
bozelli@biologia.ufrj.br
Curriculo Lattes
My whole professional career is linked to this laboratory. As soon as I joined the B.Sc. course on Biological Sciences at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), where I graduated in 1987, I began my trajectory as limnologist. I obtained a M.Sc. at that same University (1991) and shortly after that our lab was transferred to UFRJ, Rio. Farther away from home, but closer to the coastal lagoons that had already been my object of study during my B.Sc. monograph. I started my doctoral training immediately after the masters, also at UFSCar, and immediately, with a German scholarship, I moved to Plön, in the lake district in northern Germany, to do the experimental part of my thesis in the iconic Max Planck Institute for Limnology. When I returned to Brazil, I joined UFRJ as Professor in August 1993, where I remain. In nearly 30 years, my professional life orbited around this group and the projects it got involved with, such as the one related to Batata Lake and the igarapés (small streams) in Trombetas region, western portion of the state of Pará, Amazon; or else, the one that investigates small wetlands, igarapés and reservoirs at Serra de Carajás, eastern portion of the state of Pará, Amazon. And, of course, the coastal lagoons were part of my early days, of my mid-career and will most certainly be present in my late career. To this background, I must add my long and significant involvement with projects on ecology teaching and environmental education (such as Projeto Ecolagoas and Projeto Pólen), which were relevant both to my personal history and, I like to believe, to some of the environmental history of the norther portion of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, while trying to respond to the University demands, I have been trying to contribute to the formation of young researchers, to teach with affection, care and a critical viewpoint, to show the relevance of science to the society, by delivering a little more than the classic academic output that only academics like to read, by getting involved with University extension.
Areas of concetration
- General Limnology
- Plancton Ecology
- Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems
- Environmental Education and Management
- Ecology Teaching
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