Osvaldo Cuesta-Santos

• Meteorologist Diploma at School of Meteorology of Cuban Academic of Sciences. • B.Sc. University of Havana, Geographer. • Ph.D. in Meteorological Sciences, Cuban Ministry of High Education. • Senior Researcher and Professor of Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Center of Meteorological Institute of Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. • Member of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (2018 – 2022). • Work address: Aptdo 17032, Habana 17, CP 11700, La Habana, Cuba. • Email: osvaldo.cuesta@insmet.cu; cuestaosvaldo52@gmail.com • Home address: 18 # 315 Apto 5, % 19 y 21, Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Ciudad Habana, Cuba. Phone 537 8303714 and Mobile 53 5818 4005 Dr. Cuesta has worked on numerous research projects. Projects are linked to various programs such as: Technical Scientific National Program of Global Change and Evolution of the Cuban Environment related with the regional problems of the atmospheric pollution and other project linked to Program Technical Scientific Branch on Development and Environment over aspects of the air quality in urban zones. He worked in other Research Programs of importance for instance, the Technical Scientific Program of the Nickel in the result "Characterization and predicting of the air pollution associated with industrial mining development in Moa”. Also, he has carried out Tourism Research Program as “Characterization of the atmospheric environment in Cayo Coco and East's beaches” for its application in the tourist activities. Belong to the group of experts of the Council Environmental Quality of Tourism. He has published more of 40 scientific articles in foreign and national journals. Within the environmental effort activities has accomplished various studies of Air Quality in socioeconomic interest zones associated with environmental impact studies, he has worked in the Cuban Air Quality Standards. He has imparted conferences in economic and educational centers. Main topics where he has executed activities linked to researches or monitoring as following: Meteorological processes and atmospheric pollution from local to regional scale. Air quality management and its effects over environment. Organization of monitoring systems of the local and regional level of the atmospheric pollution. Diffusion and transport processes of atmospheric pollution. Deposition processes of air pollution from atmosphere rain chemistry composition, acid rain. Nitrogen atmospheric cycle. Chemical – meteorological processes of the coastal zones. Atmospheric aerosols. Chemistry composition and characteristic related physics. Inventories of pollutant emissions. Also he has developed special studies linked to environmental management activities in the country.