About Julia
Bio
Julia Shimbo is the Scientific Coordinator of MapBiomas, a collaborative network of +100 organizations in Brazil and 14 other countries that monitors land use to promote conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. Ecologist with Master in Geosciences and Ph.D. in Ecology, she mainly works on understanding land use changes in the tropics and their impacts on climate change, ecosystems, and people. Julia is also a researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) and part of the Brazilian Greenhouse Gas Estimation System (SEEG) Land Use Change sector team.
I'm passionate about
Planet Earth and people, my family and surf!
An idea worth spreading
Collaborative, open and local science for change