Raquel Santos

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CURRICULUM VITAE
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Personal Information
Name: Raquel Maria Cordeiro Alves dos Santos.
: 216 Padre Faustino Street, Nova Vista, BH - MG, Brazil. 31070-070.
es: Personal: (55- 02131) 30479562. Mobile: (55- 02131) 991842856.
E-mail:
Nationality: Brazilian.
Date of birth: 02/10/1983.
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Education
Academic Training: Bachelor of Ecology. Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Finishing - 2016.
Languages:
Mother tongue: Portuguese.
Other languages: Self-Assesment,
English: Advanced – GEOS Academy School Vancouver
Spanish: Basic
Italian: Basic
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Professional Experience

 Location: SOS Veterinary Clinic
Period: March/2011 to (currently).
Activities : Veterinary Assistant - emphasis on learning first aids .

Tutor: Drª Edileusa Feitosa de Andrade.

 Location : Zoo Bosque of Jequitibas of Campinas - SP.

Period: January / 2013 to February / 2013 .

Activities: Assist in the management of zoo’s animals. Experience in biology and management of wild animals in captivity, environmental enrichment, animal nutrition and care of infants and injured animals (quarantine).

Tutor: Dr. Eliana Ferraz.

 Location: Critter Care Wildlife Society – Langley (BC).
Period: November/2009 to February/2010.
Activities: Helped with rescue, reabilitation and release of Canadian wildlife.
Institution: Critter Care Wildlife Society.

 Location: Don Orione School.
Period: September/2008 to November/2008.
Activities: Organization of the event: “RECYCLING OIL”. Developed recycling activities and environmental education with students aged 6 to 12 years old.
Tutor: Dr. Ricardo Motta Pinto Coelho.

 Location: Emas National Park (Cerrado’s Ecology Class) .
Period: September/2008 to September/2008.
Activities: Project: “PRE-DIAGNOSIS ON THE PERCEPTION OF THE POPULATION FROM CHAPADAO DO CEU (GO-BRAZIL) ABOUT EMAS NATIONAL PARK (PNE)”. Studied and assessed the population’s perception about the environment.
Tutor: Dr. Flávio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues.
Institution: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 Location: Institute for Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores - Pro-carnivores.
Period: January/2008 to February/2008.
Activities: Probation in the project: "BIODIVERSITY’S CONSERVATION OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST – SUB-PROJECT: MEDIUM AND LARGE-SIZED MAMMALS’ RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE LANDSCAPE OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, BRAZIL”. Experience with camera traps, identification of mammals’ tracks, habitat structure, and data analysis.
Tutor: Dr. Fernanda Michalski.
Institution: Institute Pro-carnivores.

 Location: Laboratory of Environmental Education of UFMG.
Period: September/2007 to January/2008.
Activities: “PROJECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION”. Helped increase the knowledge of teachers of nine schools around the Regap-Petrobrás in Ibirité – MG.
Tutor: Dr. Paulina Maia Barbosa.
Institution: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 Location: Laboratory of Mammals’ Ecology of UFMG.
Period: August/2005 to June/2007.
Activities: Project: “PERCEPTION AND PREDATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS BY NATURAL PREDATORS AROUND SERRA DO CIPÓ NATIONAL PARK”. Examined the conflicts between the population and large carnivores.
Tutor: Dr. Flávio Henrique Guimarães Rodrigues. Intitution: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 Company: St. Agnes School
Period: August/2003 to July/2007.
Activities: teaching science, biology and chemistry.
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Additional Information
 Courses:
- Weekend with Carnivores – Organization: UNA, Center for Environmental Education reptile world, the Zoological Society of Brazil, CENAP-IBAMA.
- Seminary of Cerrados – Organization: IBAMA, Revitalization Program of the San Francisco River.
- Fauna Inventory and Monitoring – Organization: UNA, Center for Environmental Education reptile world, CEAM-Mutuca-COPASA.
- Conservation Biology - Organization: PUC of Minas Gerais.
- Mapping ecological patterns: a course of cartography, remote sensing and GPS - Organization: Ecology Society of Brazil.
- Poisonous and venomous animals of medical interest - Organization : Galapagos : Biology, Evolution and Genetics

- Municipal Plan of Conservation and Recovery of the Atlantic Forest – Organization: SOS Atlantic Forest Foundation.


 Participation and Publications:
- VIII Brazilian Congress of Ecology – Organization: Ecology Society of Brazil.
- XIV Week of Scientific initiation – Presentation of projects: “PERCEPTION AND PREDATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS BY NATURAL PREDATORS AROUND SERRA DO CIPÓ NATIONAL PARK”, and “HERBIVORY IN MACROPHIYTES C3 AND C4 IN LAKE DON HELVÉCIO, RIO DOCE STATE PARK, MG, BRAZIL”. – Organization: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
- Publication on annals of VIII Brazilian Congress of ecology: “PERCEPTION AND PREDATION OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS BY NATURAL PREDATORS AROUND SERRA DO CIPÓ NATIONAL PARK”.
- IV Brazilian Congress of Mammalogy. – Organization: Brazilian Society of mammalogy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.