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MSc. Oc. Christian dos Santos Ferreira
Name: | MSc. Oc. Christian dos Santos Ferreira | |
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Job: | Technician | |
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Phone: | +49 421 218 - 65058 | |
Fax: | +49 421 218 - 65099 | |
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Short CV
| 2009-now | Co-worker at MARUM in the Seafloor Imaging Group and at Gerhard Bohrmann's group |
| 2011-now | Co-developer of MB-System (with tools for parallel computing) |
| 2008-2009 | Co-worker at IFM-Geomar (Germany), Projects SDNS and SBF 754 |
| 2007 | Consulting jobs at some universities and private companies |
| 2004-2006 | Master degree in Oceanography, Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG (Brazil) |
| 2004-now | Project leader of Poseidon Linux |
| 2000-2003 | Co-worker at the Hydroacoustics Lab, Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG (Brazil) |
| 2000 | Graduated as Oceanographer at Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG (Brazil) |
| 1974 | Born at Rio Grande/Brazil |
Downloads
MB-System live DVD
32bit version:
http://ftp.marum.de/pub/christian/Poseidon_MBSystem_edition_32bit/
64bit version:
http://ftp.marum.de/pub/christian/Poseidon_MBSystem_edition_64bit/
MB-System training (made for the IV Brazilian Oceanography Congress April 2010):
http://ftp.marum.de/pub/christian/mbsystem_howto/
Main interests and equipments
- Bathymetry and MB-System
- GIS and Geostatistics
- Webmapping (Mapserver and Geoserver) and Geodatabases (PostgreSQL and PostGIS)
- Developer of Poseidon Linux (http://www.poseidonlinux.org)
- Developer of the MB-System live DVD
- Main prgramming languages: C and Perl
- Main Software: MB-System, GMT, GRASS, ArcGIS / ArcView, QGIS, GDAL / OGR, OFOP, Fledermaus, Matlab, Konsgberg Neptune and CARIS HIPS/SIPS
- Secondary software: Adelie/Alamer, Mimosa
- Main equipments: Single and Multibeam echosounders, Subbottom profiler and Sidescan Sonar
- Secondary equipments: CTD, Rosette
- Main OS: Mac OS X, iOS, Linux and Android
- Secondary OS: Amiga OS, DOS and Windows (from 3.11 to 7)
Cruises
- 2011/December - RV Meteor - Calibration Cruise - Duties: calibration of the EM122 together with Kongsberg Maritime, and comparison between Seatex MRU5 and IXSEA PHINS
- 2011/November - RV Meteor - Cruise M86-1 - Duties: calibration of the EM710 together with Kongsberg Maritime, and comparison between Seatex MRU5 and IXSEA PHINS
- 2011/June - RV Meteor - Cruise M84-5 - Duties: calibration of the EM122 and EM710 together with Kongsberg Maritime
- 2011/March - RV Meteor - Cruise 84-2 - duties: EM122, EM710, and Parasound
- 2010/Sept-October - RV Meteor - Cruise 82-3 - duties: EM122, EM710 and ROV dive logbook (Alamer/Adelie)
- 2010/June - RV Merian - Cruise MSM15/3 - duties: EM120, EM1002 and Parasound
- 2009/August - RV Celtic Explorer - Cruise CE0913 - duties: EM1002, EA600, CODA and GIS
- 2008/October-December - RV Meteor - Cruises M77/1 and M77/2 - duties: EM120, EM710, Parasound, CTD and OFOS
- 2007/September - RV Gyre - duties: CTD and water sampling
- 2005/April-June - RV Atlântico Sul - duties: EK500 and CTD
- 2002/April - RV Atlântico Sul - duties: EK500 and CTD
- 2002/February - RV Atlântico Sul - duties: EK500 and CTD
My short history...
Born at South Brazil at the windy Rio Grande and at the coast, the sea was always part of my life. At the age of ten I got my first computer and in a age when the only programs you had were those that you programmed yourself.
At age eleven I got my diploma as BASIC programmer after one semester. Eventually I distanced myself from computers for a while (when I entered the university to get my degree in Oceanography). Since my bachelor thesis was made using lots of statistics and C programming everything came back again.
However due to my first job I went from programming to scripting with R, MATLAB, bash and GMT/GRASS. At the same time (2001) I migrated to Linux and became a great fan of Open Source Software (OSS) movement. :-)
A few years later I started my own Linux distribution named Poseidon Linux, and which originally was intended to be a scientific Linux only for the Brazilian community. But based on numerous requests I ended up creating a international version since 2008.
My use of OSS and bathymetry eventually become big news at Brazil, where I maps from the Brazilian coast at several major magazines, newspapers and TV news. Before moving to Germany my maps were published by National Geographic Brazil inside their Atlas about this country.
I migrated to Germany to stay together with wife and started working at IFM-Geomar. Later, I got a position at MARUM where I'm since October 2009.
In between this time I become a heavy user of Macs and Mac OSX, which despite been not open (source) and its fancy interface, has a solid stability and the UNIX heritage (like Linux).
My private interests/hobbies are Rock/Blues music, guitar playing and re-learn C/C++ programming.