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 III, 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
- 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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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.
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Eddy Covariance System BCI Panama
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department