Curriculum Vitae

Full Name: Enrique Armando Castellanos Abella

Date of Birth: March 1, 1970.

Place of Birth: Camagüey City, Cuba

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ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2066-7681

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAC-7318-2019

Scopus Author ID: 23466279900

Higher Education

Geological Engineer. Universidad de Pinar del Río, Cuba (1994). Thesis: “An expert system for uranium exploration” (www.upr.edu.cu)

Master of Science in Applied Geomorphological Surveys (with distinction). ITC (www.itc.nl) . The Netherlands (2000). Thesis: “Design of a GIS-based System for Landslide Hazard Management San Antonio del Sur, Cuba, case study” (4 Mb)

PhD defended at Utrecht University (www.uu.nl) and the research was carried out at ITC (www.itc.nl). 2008. Thesis: "Multi-scale landslide risk assessment in Cuba".

Current professional situation:

· Permanent work (since 1994): Institute of Geology and Paleontology (IGP). Address: Vía Blanca 1002 y Carr. Central, San Miguel del Padrón, CP 11000, Ciudad de La Habana. Cuba. Tel.: +53 (7) 696 7232, Fax: +53 (7) 696 7004, site: www.igp.cubaindustria.cu, e-mail: REMOVEeacastellanos@gmail.com

· Currently working as Director of IGP, and developing research on natural hazards and geomorphology in Cuba.

Professional and scientific activities:

- 1994, Sep-Dec: Introductory training at work.

- 1995-1996. Project: Tectonics and paleogeography of Eastern Cuba. Working in the geologic generalization and in the tectono-stratigraphic columns.

- 1996. Project: Applications of image processing and geo-referenced information methodologies to geology in Cuba. Three charters as a principal author and seven as a co-author.

- 1996. Project: Prospecting potential areas for location of auriferous placers in the basin of Pipian River. Working in the image processing and in the GIS methodology

- 1996-1997. Project: Environment impact assessment on mining: Sta. Lucia- Castellanos area. Working in impacts identification phase.

- 1997 Research to discover the burials remains of Che Guevara in Vallegrande, Bolivia. Working in remote sensing processing and modeling.

- 1997-1998. Project: Cartography of the principal hazardous geological processes in Eastern of Cuba. Working as project manager covering almost all technical aspects.

- 1998-2000. M.Sc. studies and thesis: Design of a GIS-based system for Landslide Hazard Management, San Antonio del Sur, Cuba, case study. ITC, Enschede.

- 2001. May-Aug. Project: Environmental line base of the mining project San Felipe Mining. Working in GIS design and implementation.

- 2001-2003. Project: Geological map of Merceditas Mine. Working as project manager covering almost all technical aspects except petrography analysis.

- 2002. Jun. Project: Study of the environmental line base of two marines areas of the petroleum exploration zone at the north of Pinar del Río, Havana and Matanzas. June, 2002. Working in the charter of geology, tectonic, geomorphology, sedimentology and paleogeography.

- 2002-2003. Project: Design of the Geological Information System of Cuba (SIGEOL) at 1:100 000 scale. Working as project manager and responsible for the geological data model.

- 2003. Project: Environmental factors and mental retard diseases. Working on geological and geophysical factors, on the spatial statistical analysis and on the final report.

- 2004 - 2008. Project. Geological and geomorphological landslide hazard and risk assessment in the Cuban conditions. Working as project manager and involve in all topics.

- 2004 - 2008. PhD research project at ITC: Multi-scale landslide risk assessment in Cuba.

- 2009 - 2010. Research project: Submarine landslide hazard assessment in the insular slope of Cuban Archipelago and its potential impacts on the Cuban coasts. Working as a project manager

- 2009 - 2010. Determination of sumerged zone estimated from mean sea level scenarios for the years 2050 and 2100. Working as a project manager and desinging the GIS model for analysis.

- 2009 - Ongoing. Working with the national group of multi-hazard risk assessment for landslide risk assessment in Cuba. Developing the guideline and carrying out landslide hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment in the national territory.

- 2011 - Ongoing. Geomorpholgy of natural protected areas in the southern part of Cuba.

Publication (full list)

Latest publications (focus on landslides):

2008

Castellanos Abella, E.A. and Van Westen, C.J., 2008. Spatial landslide risk assessment in Guantánamo province, Cuba (Accepted), 10th International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, June 30 – July 4, 2008. Balkema Publisher, Xi’an, China, pp. 6. (accepted) (Request)

Van Westen, C.J., Castellanos Abella, E.A. and Kuriakose, S.L., 2008. Spatial data requirements for landslide hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment. Engineering Geology, (Submmitted to Engineering Geology): 31. (Request)

2007

Castellanos Abella, E.A. and Van Westen, C.J., 2007a. Generation of a landslide risk index map for Cuba using spatial multi-criteria evaluation. Landslides, DOI: 10.1007/s10346-007-0087-y: 19. (Request)

Castellanos Abella, E.A. and Van Westen, C.J., 2007b. Qualitative landslide susceptibility assessment by multicriteria analysis: A case study from San Antonio del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba. Geomorphology, 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.10.038: 14. (Request)

Melchiorre, C., Castellanos Abella, E. and Matteucci, M., 2007. Analysis of sensitivity in Artificial Neural Network models: application in landslide susceptibility zonation, Guantánamo Province, Cuba. 4th EGU General Assembly. April 15-20, 2007 Vienna, Austria. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 9: 10615. (PosterITC)

Suárez Leyva, V. Chang, J. L. Stout Smith, R. Prieto Castro, F. Castellanos Abella, E. 2007 Aplicación de técnicas geofísicas para la caracterización de deslizamientos. Caso de Estudio: Valle de Caujerí, Guantánamo. III Congreso de Geofísica 2007 1p. (Abstract)

Postgraduate Courses:

- 1995 Data Exploratory Analysis, IGA, Havana, Cuba (www.iga.cu)

- 1995 Geostatistical, ISCAH, Havana, Cuba

- 1995 Pattern Recognition, IGT, Havana, Cuba

- 1995 About new informatics-digital and digitized aerophotography technology in the environmental impact assessment, Cuba

- 1996 R&D project management, Higher School of MINBAS, Cuba

- 1997 Workshop: Use of Geographic information systems, Ecole Nationale Supérieur Agricolee Montpellier (INRA), Havana, Cuba

- 1998 Training at Universal Systems Ltd. company offices on GIS, titled as Authorized Trainer on CARIS GIS. New Brunswick, Canada

- 1998-2000 Master of Science in Applied Geomorphological Surveys (with Distinction), at ITC, Enschede, Netherlands (www.itc.nl)

- 2002 Integrated project management, GECYT, Cuba

Teaching Experience:

- 1991-1993 Programming (Turbo Pascal, Basic, Databases) during undergraduate studies. University of Pinar del Río, Cuba

- 1995 Postgraduate course: Photointerpretation and Image Processing, IGP, Cuba

- 1995 Postgraduate course: Geographic Information System for Geology, University of Pinar del Río, Cuba

- 1995 Postgraduate course: Geographic Information System for Geology, IGP, Cuba

- 1995-2004: Teacher in several courses Introductory, Input and Editing, Advanced, Analysis and Modeling en CARIS GIS as Authorized CARIS Trainer (1998). (www.caris.com)

National and International Congress participation:

· I Iberoamerican workshop on informatics and geosciences, Havana, Cuba 1992

· II Cuban Geological Congress, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba 1994

· II Iberoamerican workshop on informatics and geosciences, Havana, Cuba 1994

· Regional conference of latin american and caribbean countries International Geographic, 1995

· Workshop on Mathematical modeling and GIS, Havana, Cuba 1995

· First national workshop on geostatistics, Havana, Cuba 1995

· III Iberoamerican Workshop on Informatics and geosciences, Havana, Cuba 1996

· III Cuban Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba 1998

· World GIS Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1998

· The 2nd Int. Symposium on Operationalization of Remote Sensing, ITC, The Netherlands, 1999

· IV Cuban Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba 2001

· Geomatic Congress, Havana, Cuba 2002

· V Cuban Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba 2003

· International Conference on Landslide Risk Management, Vancouver, Canada. 2005

· VI Cuban Geological Congress, Havana, Cuba 2005

· ISPRS Mid-term Symposium: Remote sensing: From pixels to processes, ITC, The Netherlands 2006