Alfonso Zambrano- Bachelor of Engineering
- Research Technician IV at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Alfonso Zambrano
- Bachelor of Engineering
- Research Technician IV at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Installation, maintenance and management of the Eddy Covariance System installed in the Ava Tower located in "BCI"
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Introduction
Researcher and Scientist technician in the area of water use management by trees and overland hydrological flow.
Professional Development in Management and Control of Telecommunications Projects.
Extensive experience in Planning, Management and Control in the execution of Projects in the Technology Area.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5442-5897
Current institution
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March 2021 - present
Position
- Research Technician III
Description
- Installation, maintenance and management of the Eddy Covariance System installed in the Ava Tower located in "BCI" Carro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal. Installation, maintenance and administration of Sap Flow and Soil Sensors of the NGEE-Tropics Project. Data download and processing. Installation and maintenance of Soil moisture sensors, Phenocam, and Thermocam cameras. Data download and processing.
Education
September 1990 - September 1998
Publications
Publications (9)
Surface ozone monitoring sites in the tropics are limited, despite the risk that surface ozone poses to human health, tropical forest and crop productivity. Atmospheric chemistry models allow us to assess ozone exposure in unmonitored locations and evaluate the potential influence of changing policies and climate on air quality, human health and ec...
Tropical forest tree sensitivity to extreme drought depends on the availability of soil water and transport of that water to the canopy.
Surface ozone monitoring sites in the tropics are limited, despite the risk that surface ozone poses to human health, tropical forest, and crop productivity. Atmospheric chemistry models allow us to assess ozone exposure in unmonitored locations and evaluate the potential influence of changing policies and climate on air quality, human health, and...
This study aimed to understand how transpiration (J s) and crown conductance (G s) of tropical trees are impacted by environmental and physiological traits across a gradient from seasonally dry, intermediate, and ever-wet tropical forests (Fig. 1), and to quantify how leaf-to-air temperature decoupling impacts G s.
Main hypotheses:
H1: High vapor...
The representation of stomatal regulation of transpiration and CO2 assimilation is key to forecasting terrestrial ecosystem responses to global change. Given its importance in determining the relationship between forest productivity and climate, accurate and mechanistic model representation of the relationship between stomatal conductance (gs) and...
Tree water use is the dominant terrestrial hydrologic flux globally, and has a dominant regulatory influence over the carbon cycle. Sap flow through the tree is also a useful model diagnostic for FATES-Hydro. Our objective is to quantify variation in tree water use at three sites across a rainfall gradient in Panama. Our ultimate goals are to under...
Forests are an important component for the water balance of terrestrial ecosystems. Knowledge of plant characteristics is of vital importance for improvements in current climate models (Jasechko et al., 2013; Christoffersen et al, 2017). Our objective was to describe and compare maximum sap velocity patterns from June to August 2022 in different wo...
Mecanografíado Tesis (Ing. de Sistemas)-- Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería de Sistemas, Mérida, 1999 Incluye bibliografía
