Zambrano, Alfonso J.
Systems Engineer
0000-0001-5442-5897
Zambrano, Alfonso J.
Systems Engineer
Installation, maintenance and management of the Eddy Covariance System installed in the Ava Tower located in "BCI" Barro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal and a natural monument of research of the Smithsonian Institute.
Installation, maintenance and administration of Sap Flow and Soil Sensors of the NGEE-Tropics Project.
Data download and processing.
Positions
- Research Technician IV, Smithsonian Instituto de Investigaciones Tropicales (STRI) 2018 -
Geographic Focus
- Latin America and the Caribbean Continent
- Panama Country
- United States of America Country
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Country
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.E. in Systems Engineer (Operations Research Department), Universidad de Los Andes. Merida, Mérida, VE , Facultad de Ingeniería: Systems Departament 1990 - 1998
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Fang, Yilin, Da Silva, Cristina Santos, Collins, Adam, Gimenez, Bruno O., Jardine, Kolby, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I., Oliveira, Regison, Menezes, Valdiek Da Silva, Solander, Kurt, Spanner, Gustavo, Warren, Jeffrey M., Wright, Cynthia L., Zambrano, Alfonso, Lima, Adriano, Higuchi, Niro, Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Koven, Charlie, Leung, L. Ruby, and McDowell, Nate G. 2026. "Multivariate environmental and trait-based controls of transpiration in the Central Amazon Rainforest." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110914. 2026
- Brown, Flossie, Folberth, Gerd, Sitch, Stephen, Artaxo, Paulo, Bauters, Marijn, Boeckx, Pascal, Cheesman, Alexander W., Detto, Matteo, Komala, Ninong, Rizzo, Luciana, Rojas, Nestor, Vieira, Ines dos Santos, Turnock, Steven, Verbeeck, Hans, and Zambrano, Alfonso. 2024. "Performance evaluation of UKESM1 for surface ozone across the pan-tropics." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, (21) 12537–12555. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-12537-2024. 2024
- Wolfe, Brett T., Davidson, Kenneth J., Lamour, Julien, Zambrano, Alfonso, Li, Qianyu, Pivovaroff, Alexandria L., Ely, Kim S., McDowell, Nate G., Rogers, Alistair, Serbin, Shawn P., and Wright, S. J. 2023. "Short‐term variation in leaf‐level water use efficiency in a tropical forest." New Phytologist, 237, (6) 2069–2087. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18684. 2023
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Conference Paper
- Sun, Xiangmin, Aguirre, Ignacio, Ruzol, Roel, Pareli, Sreenath, Tang, Angela Che Ing, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wang, Brian, Yuan, Kunxiaoojia, Rodriguez, Leia Constanza Hernandez, Lee, Hojin, and Yazbeck, Theresia. 2025. "Building a Collaborative Future in Flux Science: The FLUXNET Early Career Network (FLUXNET-ECN) B13K-1675." in American Geophysical Union 2025. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12441.89449. 2025
- Warren, Jeffrey M., Zambrano, Alfonso, Mas, Eugénie, Robinson I Negrón-Juárez, Wright, Cynthia, Gimenez, Bruno O., Nurfarah Agilah, M. N., Joseph Wright, S., Da Silva, Cristina Santos, Spanner, Gustavo C., Valdiek da, Silva Menezes, Oliveira, Regison, Lima, Adriano, Higuchi, Niro, Chambers, Jeff, Davies, Stuart J., Koven, Charlie, and McDowell, Nate. 2025. "Integration of Soil Water, Sap Flow, Stem Diameter and Stem Water Potential Sensors Across Tropical Forests: Science Necessity, Technical Deployment and Operational Challenges." in American Geophysical Union 2025. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19459.57123. 2025
- Warren, Jeffrey, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, Cynthia, Rutuja Chitra-Tarak, Collins, Adam, Robinson Negron-Juarez, Neild, Alex, Parker, Jordan, Khandelwal, Annalise, Solander, Kurt, Rahman, Mizanur, Xu, Chonggang, McDowell, Nate, Chambers, Jeff, and Wright, Joe. 2024. "Tropical forest response to drought -Soil water availability, depth of tree root water extraction and tree water use in Panama." in Centennial Symposium of Barro Colorado Island. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24824.76805. 2024
- Rahman, Mizanur, McDowell, Nate, Rogers, Alistair, Serbin, Shawn, Ely, Kim, Davidson, Ken, Lamour, Julian, Michaletz, Sean, Wolfe, Brett, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, Joe, and Chambers, Jeff. 2023. "Regulation of whole-tree hydraulic conductance in tropical forests across a steep climatic gradient." in 2023 ESA Annual Meeting. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27792.79364. 2023
- Da Silva, Cristina Santos, Spanner, Gustavo C., Menezes, S., Oliveira, C., Lima, Adriano J. N., Zambrano, Alfonso, Warren, Jeffrey M., Gimenez, Bruno O., Higuchi, Niro, McDowell, Nate, and Chambers, Jeff. 2022. "Maximum sap velocity of canopy trees along a wood density gradient in the Amazon." in 2022 NGEE-Tropics Annual Meeting. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31987.09766. 2022
- Spanner, Gustavo C., McDowell, Nate, Gimenez, Bruno O., Wright, Cynthia L., Valdiek, S. Menezes, Regison, C. Oliveira, Santos, Cristina S., Souza, Daisy C., Amaral, Marcio R. M., Zambrano, Alfonso, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I., Lima, Adriano J. N., Jardine, Kolby J., Chambers, Jeffrey Q., Higuchi, Niro, and Warren, Jeffrey M. 2022. "Nocturnal sap flow and capacitance in canopy trees in Central Amazon." in 2022 NGEE-Tropics Annual Meeting. Unpublished. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13756.30083. 2022
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Dataset
- Davidson, Kenneth, Lamour, Julien, Calderon, Osvaldo, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, Cynthia, and Ely, Kim. 2022. [Dataset] Leaf reflectance, leaf transmittance and sky irradiance, at four sites in Panama, 2022. Distributed by Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Tropics; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.15486/NGT/1896889. 2022
- Pivovaroff, Alexandria, McDowell, Nate, Wolfe, Brett, Detto, Matteo, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, S. Joseph, and Davies, Stuart. 2020. [Dataset] Sap flow data from San Lorenzo, Panama (PA-SLZ) from January - June 2020. Distributed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). https://doi.org/10.15486/NGT/1678733. 2020
- Pivovaroff, Alexandria, McDowell, Nate, Wolfe, Brett, Detto, Matteo, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, S. Joseph, and Davies, Stuart. 2020. [Dataset] Sap flow data from San Lorenzo, Panama (PA-SLZ), 2019. Distributed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). https://doi.org/10.15486/NGT/1678734. 2020
Presentations
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Presentation
- McDowell, Nate, Wolfe, Brett, Boogaard, Dalton, Zambrano, Alfonso, Grossiord, Charlotte, Pivovaroff, Alexandria Lynn, Ding, Junyan, Wright, S. Joseph, Davies, Stuart, and Chambers, Jeff. 2022. [Poster] Alfonso Zambrano NGEE-Tropics Poster 2022 Annual Meeting. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28103.27049.
- Solander, Kurt, Collins, Adam, Grúllon, Iana, Wood, Tana, Oliveira, Regison, Monteiro, Alicia, Gimenez, Bruno, Negrón-Juárez, Robinson, Zambrano, Alfonso, Warren, Jeff, Wright, Cynthia, Newman, Brent, and Sites, Field. 2025. [Poster] Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments -Tropics Water volume and nutrient fluxes from the canopy to the root zone across different environmental gradients in the Neotropics.
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Eddy Covariance System BCI Panama
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
