| Expert Name | Mr. Osvaldo A. Fernandez |
| Title | Director/Consultant Professor |
| Division | Research Center for Semiarid Lands |
| Institution | Universidad Nacional del Sur |
| City | Bahia Blanca |
| Country | Argentina |
| Telephone | 54 91 861117/521127 |
| Email | ofernan(at)criba.edu.ar |
| Work Experience | - Director of several research projects financed by national grants. One of them included the labor of about 20 researchers.
- Counterpart of a project (US$ 450.000) financed by the Commission of European Community. Subject: aquatic weed management in irrigation districts of Buenos Aires and Rio Negro 1992-1996. |
| Qualifications | * Agricultural Engineer, University of Buenos Aires, 1952.
* M.Sc., University of Toronto, Canada, 1962.
* Doctor of Philosophy, Rangeland Ecology, Utah State University, USA, 1974. |
| Number of Publications | 70 |
| Awards | 1. Corresponding Member, National Academy of Agronomy, 1989.
2. Konex Award, 100 best figure of the last decade in Science and Technology, 1993.
3. Invited by the China Academy of Science, 35 days for talks and research.
4. Member, International So |
| Other Activities | 1. Director of 10 postgraduate thesis works
2. Member, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
3. meber of several Argentine Associations |
| Publications | 1. Fernandez, O., Boo, M. and Sacnhez, L. South American Shrublands. McKell Ed. The bIol and Utilz. of Schrubs. Academic Press 1989-1995.
2. Fresnillo Fedorenko, D.E., Fernandez, O.A. and Busso, C. Shedeffect of water stress on top and root growth in Medicado Minima Jour. Arid Env. 29:47-54.
3. Klich, M.G., N.G. Didone and Fernandez. Response of Spirodela intermedia to osmotically indiced water stress. Aquatic Botany 55:107-114.
4. Montani, T. Busso, C. and Fernandez, O. 1996 Production and nitrogen cycling in an ecosystem of Eragrostics curvula in semiarid Argentina I Acta Ecologica 17:151-162 (also II).
5. Fernandez, O. and Busso, C. 1997. Arid and Semi-arid Rangelands: Two-thirds of Argentina. Actas Rangeland Desertification International Workshop, Islandia. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 12/01/2007 14:34:00 |
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