Álvaro Penteado Crósta
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Álvaro Penteado Crósta is a Brazilian geologist, specialized in remote sensing and mineral exploration. He is an authority on the meteor craters of Brazil.
[edit] Biography
A. P. Crósta got a Bachelor's degree in geology from the University of São Paulo in 1977, a Master's degree from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of University of London in 1990. In 1995--1996 he was a visiting scholar at the Desert Research Institute of the University of Nevada at Reno.
As of 2008, he is a Full Professor at the Geosciences Institute of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He has been the the Institute's Director since 2005.
[edit] External links
- A. P. Crósta's entry in the Lattes database of CNPq.
- A. P. Crósta's homepage at IG-UNICAMP
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