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SPSAS Climate Change
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências
Atmosféricas
IAG within USP
IAG building
Physics Institute Restaurant (SPSASCC lunch vouchers)
IAG• Originated in the Geographical and Geological Commission
of the State of São Paulo
• Created by Provincial Law #9, of March 27, 1886 and headed by the American geologist Orville A. Derby
• Associated with USP when university was founded in 1934
• Incorporated into USP in 1946
• It is one of the major research centers of Brazil on the topics of the Sciences of Earth and the Universe.
IAG• IAG is organized into three departments
– Astronomy– Geophysics– Atmospheric Sciences
• Teaching activities on undergraduate and graduate levels, research and community services
• Department of Atmospheric Sciences created in 1975
• BS Course in Meteorology started in 1977– 20 admissions per year
– 8-semesters long
• 30% of the students enrolled are in the “scientific initiation”, with grants from FAPESP, CNPq, FTCH and FUSP
• Graduate Program began in 1975, currently:– 34 are in the Master’s course
– 40 are in the Doctoral course
IAG• The Institute also runs two off-campus premises:
– Abrahão de Moraes Observatory, in the city of Valinhos
– the Meteorological Station, located inside USP’s Science and Technology Park in Água Funda neighborhood, São Paulo• Founded in November 1932
• Teaching: – theoretical and practical classes for IAG students and other institutions;
– training for technicians in meteorological observations;
– orientation of students in school work and science fairs.
• Research: – data provision for scientific initiation, scientific articles, seminars,
master's dissertations, doctoral theses, postdoctoral projects, materials for books, magazines and newspapers.
• University Outreach: – attendance of visits with lectures and audiovisual for primary,
secondary and university elementary schools, and general public;
– specific lectures for university extension courses of IAG;
– participation in events;
– visit to the museum of meteorology.
IAG• Besides the intensive collaboration with Brazilian and
foreign research institutions, IAG’s faculty members coordinate research projects of major scientific and socio-economical impact.
• As a result, its large scientific production places IAG among the most productive research institutions in Latin America.