Management and Conservation of Soil and Water
Phone number: +55 (53) 3275 7267
e-mail: ppgmacsa@ufpel.edu.br
Website:
Address:
UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE PELOTAS
Faculdade de Agronomia Eliseu Maciel – FAEM
Campus Universitário s/n – Pelotas – RS – Brasil
Caixa Postal: 354
CEP: 96010-900
Presentation
The Graduate Program in Management and Conservation of Soil and Water (PPG-MACSA for its spelling in Portuguese) aims to provide degree-holding professionals with the opportunity to improve their skills to work with higher education teaching and research, enabling them to further technological and scientific knowledge on the management and conservation of soil and water through the conduction of scientific research projects in all of their underlying aspects: planning, design, implementation, analysis and publishing,
In 2011, the Program was given a grade of 4 by CAPES Technical and Scientific Council of Higher Education (CTC-ES), earning the same grade in the last triennial evaluation (2010-2012).
The faculty is comprised of professors from the Soil Science and Rural Engineering departments of the Eliseu Maciel School of Agronomy, as well as professors from UFPel Undergraduate Program in Agricultural Engineering.
Area of Concentration
Management and Conservation of Soil and Water.
Lines of Research
Management and Conservation of Soil and Water in Agricultural Lands
Management and Conservation of Soil and Water in Mined Lands
Study Plan
Land suitability and management of lowland soils;
Assessment and reclamation of degraded lands
Assessment of environmental impacts
Water dynamics in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
Soil fertility
Soil physics I
Soil physics II
Management of water resources
Hydrology
Hydropedology
Introduction to spatial and time series analysis
Agricultural water management
Hydrological modelling
Pedology
Transfer processes in the soil-water-plant-atmosphere system
Soil chemistry
Remote sensing
Special topics in management and conservation of soil and water I and II
Seminars I and II
Faculty
Professor Cláudia Fernanda Almeida Teixeira
Professor Cláudia Liane Rodrigues de Lima
Professor Eloy Antonio Pauletto
Professor Luís Carlos Timm
Professor Luiz Fernando Spinelli Pinto
Professor Rita de Cássia Fraga Damé
Professor Rodrigo Rizzi
Professor Rogério Oliveira de Sousa
Professor Vitor Emanuel Quevedo Tavares
Number of credits required
In order to qualify for the Master's thesis defense, students are expected to have taken a minimum of 24 (twenty-four) credits.