Claudia-Helena Giraldo Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne Y Alrededores, Australia

I've been working on different consulting works, such as vegetation characterisation, biomass estimation, report writing for municipalities, mapping and giving advice.

Antioquia, Colombia

Subject: coordinate the service orders CV-057/2 of 2017 and CV-057/1 of 2018 undersigned with the CuencaVerde Corporation (http://www.cuencaverde.org/home/) to perform activities of perimeter insulation, restoration, forest enrichment and practices of sustainable production in properties located in northern and eastern Antioquia - Colombia, in the framework of the project “Restoration of ecosystems, management of biodiversity and practices of sustainable production”. Functions: * Coordinate field residents' activities, input deliveries, verification visits and contractors.* Conduct field visits to monitor progress in the works, as well as to make recommendations.* Issue training and technical assistance to field residents and field workers.* Define forest arrangements.* Visit the forest nurseries to evaluate the quality of the saplings.

Bello, Antiquia, Colombia

Project of Temporary Union for Watershed Management of River Turbo-Currulao with Corpourabá (corporation for the sustainable development of the region Urabá – Antioquia; http://corpouraba.gov.co). Functions:• Diagnostic phase: Calculate the biophysical indicators of the topics Coverage and Land Use, Areas and Strategic Ecosystems, based on the technical guide of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia (2014).• Prospective and environmental zoning phase: build the trend scenarios, and carry out the land zoning.• Support the cartographic production of the diagnostic and prospective phase of the biophysical, social and economic components.• Generate the geodatabase with the data sets related to the topics Coverage and Use of the Land, Areas and Strategic Ecosystems. Support for the completion of the geodatabases of other components.• Prepare reports of the diagnostic and zoning indicators of the topics land cover and land use, and areas and strategic ecosystems.

Santa Marta, Colombia

Leader of the mangrove community component. Objective: Carry out mangrove forest inventories and monitoring for characterization of the structure of the forest, natural regeneration and its environment, as well as their spatiotemporal changes (www.invemar.org.co/). PROJECTS 1. Follow-up plan and monitoring of the delta-estuary area of Sinu River for URRA S.A. E.S.P. (http://urra.com.co/). 2014-2016.2. Coast evolution in the area in front of the project Cabo Tortuga and surrounding areas, Santa Marta, Colombia, for the Marine Condominium Cabo Tortuga (http://www.cabotortuga.com/es/). 2015.3. Environmental characterization of the areas of interest of the block Colombia Offshore COL 3, SIN OFF-7 and GUA OFF-3, Colombia Caribbean, for Shell (http://www.shell.com/). Support on the cruise. 2015.4. Marine ecosystems monitoring of Portete Bay (Bolivar Port) for Carbones del Cerrejón Limited (http://www.cerrejon.com). 2015-2016.5. Environmental and Ecological characterisation of the Spanish Lagoon (Aruba) for Chamba Blou subsidiary of Odinsa S.A. Group (https://www.odinsa.com/). 2016-2017.Functions:1. To plan, participate, and lead mangrove field trips: determination and maintenance of plots, measurement of trees, seedlings, saplings and propagules, botanic identification, measurement of physical-chemical variables, generation of land and vegetation profiles, according to the project’s requirements.2. To scan and analyze the mangrove data. Characterise the composition and structure of the tree community and its environment.3. Preparation of technical reports and presentations, based on the results of structure, natural regeneration and physical-chemical parametres, both specific and multiannual. 4. To support other components at research cruises or various activities.

Bello, Antioquia, Colombia

Project “Review and adjustment of the land-use plan scheme at the municipality of Remedios (Antioquia, Colombia)”, for Remedios Town Hall, http://www.remedios-antioquia.gov.co/. Position: Environmental Analyst and cartographic processing, from 17/06/2013 to 17/07/2013 and from 01/08/2014 to 12/09/2014. Objective: To carry out the environmental characterization at the municipality and to prepare the official cartography for the Land-use Plan Scheme at the municipality.Project “Temporary Colombian-Canadian Joint-project La Mojana”; consulting contract No. 045 of 2013 for the Adaptation Fund, which is part of the Ministry of Public Finance and Public Credit, Republic of Colombia. http://sitio.fondoadaptacion.gov.co/, under the following positions: Photographic interpreter from 25/03/2014 to 30/04/2014. Function: Interpretation of the aerial orthophotographs, scale 1:25,000, covering 41,305 ha, level 3 under the methodology Corine Land Cover Colombia. Quality control on interpretation of orthophotos, from 01/05/2014 to 31/07/2014. Functions: To do quality control, assessment and correction of the blueprints interpreted in the coverage and land-use in order to build the entire block at La Mojana, which comprises 1,050,000 ha approximately.

Chigorodó, Antioquia, Colombia

Agreement TQ93 “Forest Management and Governance” with WWF Colombia (http://www.wwf.org.co/), to update the Forest Management Plan of the indigenous reservation at the municipality of Chigorodó, based on the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) forest management standard (emberachigorodo.org/). Functions: • To prepare the update and the Forest Management Plan of Yaberaradó and Polines under the standard of the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) forest management.• To review and accompany the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) – Colombia’s consultant to review the methodology to identify the forest attributes with high preservation value. • To systematize and document the chain of custody on the forest management operation at the Higher Indigenous Council of Chigorodó. • To support the preparation of technical reports to be submitted to the WWF under the framework of agreement TQ93. • To carry out the forest zoning of the forest management unit of the reservations Yaberadó and Polines.

Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia

Functions: To participate in forest inventory at the Andean forest; to prepare the methodology and perform execution, calculations and analysis to estimate biomass at Andean forests; to manage the database; to contribute to thematic cartography; and to prepare technical reports (www.sag-sa.com/).

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Forest Sciences And Biology

Forest Engineer, Ecology

Bests average scores of Forest Engineering. National University of Colombia, Medellin branch: 2009 - 2012. Automatic admission.