Bio

Brazilian, born and raised in the city of São Paulo (São Paulo - Brazil).

I did my undergrad in biology and my undergraduate research project was studying pollen rain collected with artificial pollen traps in the South of Brazil in Atlantic Forest remains.
After graduation, I moved to the Brazilian Amazon to pursue my Master's in botany at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (Manaus, Amazonas – Brazil). During my Master's, I studied the palynology from the Solimões Formation (Neogene, Brazil), and also of Holocene sediments from Amazonian flooded areas. Comparing the pollen diversity of Neogene with the Holocene we found that both palynofloras had pollen that originated mainly from local flooded environments and that Neogene palynoflora was much more homogeneous than modern sediments.
I arrived in the USA in 2022 to pursue my Ph.D. in Biology under Dr. Mark Bush and Crystal McMichael's guidance at Florida Institute of Technology. My research will aim to use the study of the palynology of sediment cores collected in Central and Northwestern Amazon to understand human impacts in the rainforest in the last ~2000 years.

email: bgomes2022@my.fit.edu