Professor Jefferson Cardia Simões (founding director of the Centro Polar e Climático, Instituto de GeociênciasUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Vice President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and associated Professor in the Climate Change Institute) and many of his students have been frequent partners in many CCI research projects.  In read more Special Volume Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Brazilian Antarctic Research Program – J. Simoes et al.