Katia Fernandes earned her Ph.D in Earth and Atmosphere Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Work on her thesis, "The Amazon hydrometeorology and climate in ERA40," gave her the opportunity to explore climate variability and change, hydrometeorology and extratropical and tropical climate interactions. She will be working with Walter Baethgen and Lisa Goddard in investigating and developing plausible scenarios of regional climate change over the Amazon, including changing seasonality for decadal to multi-decadal time horizons. These scenarios will be applied to examine the patterns of fire use, spread, control and losses due to uncontrolled burns.
