Agenda
III LBA Scientific Conference |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Conference materials available to participants with completed registrations (and fees paid) at stands in certain hotel lobbies, to be announced. | ||
Tuesday, July 27 |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 | Plenary I - Opening Session Marina Silva - The Head of Brazi's Environmental Ministry |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| Plenary II | Chair: Paulo Artaxo | ||
| 11:00 | Carlos Nobre | Overview of Climate - Vegetation Interactions in Amazonia: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Climates of the Future | |
| 11:30 | Maria Assunção Silva Dias | Deforestation and Biomass Burning as Drivers of Regional Climate Change in Amazônia | |
| 12:00 | Meinrat O. Andreae | Smoke Aerosols, Clouds, Rain and Climate | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Poster Session | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 - 19:00 | Parallel Sessions I - Research Highlights (RH) and Special Sessions (S) Click on each session to see detailed talks and schedules | ||
Session |
Chairs | Title | |
| Diógenes Alves, Emilio Moran |
Research Highlights: Land Cover, Land Use and Human Dimensions |
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| Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver Phillips |
Variation of Forest Ecosystem Processes Across Amazonia |
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| Jose Marengo, Edson Rocha |
Water and Energy and Balances of the Amazon Basin | ||
| Marcos Buckeridge, Carlos Prado |
Ecophysiological and Biochemical Responses of Tropical Plants to Elevated CO2 | ||
| John Melack, Jeffrey Richey |
Carbon Exchanges Between Aquatic Environments, Land, and Atmosphere | ||
| Laerte Ferreira, Alfredo Huete |
Terra / Aqua MODIS Data and Products for LBA Science: Current Results and Opportunities for Data Integration and Synthesis | ||
Wednesday, July 28 |
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| Plenary III | Chair: Michael Keller | ||
| 9:00 | Antonio Nobre | Desvendando as Complexidades do Ciclo do Carbono na Amazônia | |
| 9:30 | Yadvinder Malhi | Spatial Patterns in Forest Carbon Dynamics, Biomass and Biomass Change Across the Amazon Basin | |
| 10:00 | Steven Wofsy | Tapajos Primary Forest Study in Context: Comparison of Tapajos Data for Carbon Budgets, Climatic Forcing and Forest Demography Across Amazonia |
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| Coffee Break | |||
| Plenary IV | Chair: Flávio Luizão | ||
| 11:00 | Ulisses Confalonieri | Earth System Processes and Human Health: Linkages in the Amazon | |
| 11:30 | Jonathan Foley | Regional- and Planetary-Scale "Goods and Services" Provided by the Amazon Basin: Examining Trade-Offs Between Human Needs and Environmental Function | |
| 12:00 | Daniel Nepstad | Policy Relevance of LBA "Human Dimensions" Science: A Review of Accomplishments and Opportunities | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Poster Session | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
| 16:30 - 19:00 | Parallel Sessions II - Research Highlights (RH) and Special Sessions (S) Click on each session to see detailed talks and schedules | ||
| Session | Chairs | Title | |
| Jeffrey Richey, Humberto Rocha |
Research Highlights: Carbon, Biogeochemistry, and Hydrology | ||
Tercio Ambrizzi, |
Role of Amazon Ecosystem in Determining Regional and Global Climate Variabilties | ||
| Patrick Meir, Paulo Moutinho |
Drought Effects on Forest Carbon Dynamics: Results From Rainfall Manipulation Experiments | ||
| Eustáquio Reis, Marcellus Caldas |
Roads, Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Brazilian Amazon | ||
| I. Foster Brown, Jeffrey Morisette |
Accuracy Assessments and their Implications for Fire and Deforestation Monitoring | ||
| Meinrat O. Andreae, Vanderlei Martins |
Impact of Aerosol Particles on the Amazonian Climate | ||
| Thursday, July 29 |
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| Plenary V | Chair: Mercedes Bustamante | ||
| 9:00 | Reynaldo Victoria | Understanding the Surface Hydrology of Amazonia: A Biogeochemical View | |
| 9:30 | Eric Davidson | Pasture Degradation, Secondary Forest Regrowth, and Mature Forest Productivity: Do Nutrients Matter? | |
| 10:00 | Erick Fernandes | Harnessing Biogeochemistry and Traditional Knowledge For Regenerating Deforested and Degraded Lands in the Amazon | |
| Coffee Break | |||
Plenary VI |
Chair: Regina Luizão | ||
| 11:00 | Tatiana Sá | How can LBA Achievements be Useful to Agriculture in Amazonia? | |
| 11:30 | Gregory P. Asner | Remote Sensing of Selective Logging: Challenges, Successes, and the Future | |
| 12:00 | Ima Vieira | An Integrated Analysis of Ecology and Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics in Eastern Amazonia | |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Poster Session | ||
| Coffee Break | |||
15:30 - 18:00 |
Parallel Sessions III - Research Highlights (RH) and Special Sessions (S) Click on each session to see detailed talks and schedules | ||
Session |
Chairs | Title | |
| ??? | Research Highlights: Physical Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry | ||
| Marcos Costa, Chris Potter |
A Decade of Progress in Modeling Productivity, Carbon Cycling and Surface Hydrology Across the Amazon Basin | ||
| Alex Krusche, Johannes Lehmann |
Soil Control on Stream Biogeochemistry | ||
| Scott Saleska, Carlos Souza |
Disturbance Events and Tropical Forest Ecology and Biogeochemistry | ||
| Daniel Nepstad, Britaldo Soares |
Integrating Land Use Change, Ecosystem Responses, and Climate Systems in the Amazon Basin | ||
| Mateus Batistella, Eric Davidson |
Secondary Forests in the Amazonian Landscape: Field Studies and Remote Sensing Studies that Advance our Understanding of the Spatial, Temporal, and Biogeochemical Dynamics of Secondary Forests | ||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Plenary VII- Closing Session | ||
