Kátia Fernandes

Bio

Dr. Kátia Fernandes is a climate scientist, whose work focuses on applied climate research to the benefit of society. Her work includes studies evaluating the impacts of climate variability and change on tropical forests’ droughts and fires, how climate prediction can be better assessed to estimate agricultural outputs, and how the combined effect of vegetation health, temperature and precipitation impacts fire predictability at various time scales. She has also collaborated in studies addressing the impacts of climate on the predominance of infectious diseases and on ecosystems services of tropical forests. Recent research includes fires and precipitation relationships over different landscapes in the south-central sector of the United States.

She has a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master’s in Meteorology from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research and a Bachelor’s in Meteorology from the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil.