Dr. Andrea Carneiro Becomes GGE Honorary Research Associate

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Dr. Carneiro is one of the leading academic cadastral specialists in Brazil and works with the surveys of rural and municipal lands, the improvement of land registration, and land regularization for disadvantaged and landless peoples in Brazil. Together with her students and other faculty at UFPE, she led the PIGN socio-economic subproject in Pernambuco. This subproject included helping a Quilombola (ex-slave settlement) to obtain title to their lands, organizing the first two national workshops on regularization of Quilombola lands, and improving the use of cartographic information by and for marginalized groups. Dr. Carneiro is currently the co-supervisor, with Dr. Sue Nichols, of GGE Ph.D. student Silvane Paixão who is helping to integrate the diverse cadastral information systems in rural Brazil.

Some of the organizers of the first National Workshop on Regularization of Quilombola Lands in Brazil held in Recife in June 2006. Left to right: Márcio Brito (IBGE), Luciano Guimarães (NAVTEC), Silvane Paixao (UNB), Hazel Onsrud (UNB), Andrea Carneiro (UFPE), Pablo Gatai (INCRA), Wlademir (Algás).

Dr. Carneiro holding a cheque with José Carlos, the Castainho Quilombola Community Leader, for funds raised by GGE students to purchase a cooking stove for the community school (the stove is shown on the screen in the upper right). The cheque for $300 had been presented by the GGE Undergraduate Society in Fredericton in November 2007 when José Carlos and others visited UNB for a project workshop.

Dr. Carneiro examining property descriptions in a private land registration office in Recife. The new law of Brazil requires coordinate values for every property. The new spatial reference framework, SIRGAS2000, established with help from UNB will affect all of these descriptions.