U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Research: Scholarships for U.S. Graduates to Participate in a Research-Oriented Tropical Biology Program in Brazil

这项美国-巴西提案要求支持杜克大学的Gary S. Hartshorn博士赞助六名研究生参加巴西的一个以研究为导向的热带生物学项目。该项目的目标是为新兴的美国科学家提供葡萄牙语的强化语言技能，对巴西习俗和文化的全面了解，以及在亚马逊进行生态研究的实践经验。热带研究组织（ORS）将与杜克大学、巴西国家亚马孙雨林研究所（INPA）和史密森学会森林碎片生物动力学项目（BDFFP）合作，为6名美国研究生和博士候选人提供支持，让他们与16名巴西研究生一起参加一门以葡萄牙语授课、以研究为导向的实地课程，研究巴西亚马孙雨林的生态。亚马逊拥有地球上最多的物种，产生了世界上大约10%的二氧化碳排放量，后者主要来自森林砍伐和栖息地转换和燃烧。亚马逊是减少生物多样性丧失和减缓全球气候变化的关键之一。这个项目将帮助更多训练有素的研究人员在还有时间的时候进入亚马逊进行研究。

0000477HartshornThis US-Brazil proposal requests support to Dr. Gary S. Hartshorn of Duke University for sponsorship of six graduate students to participate in a research-oriented tropical biology program in Brazil.The goal of this project is to provide emerging U.S. scientists with intensive language skills in Portuguese, a well-rounded knowledge of Brazilian customs and culture and hands-on field experiences conducting ecological research in the Amazon. The Organization for Tropical Studies (ORS), will work in collaboration with Duke University and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA) and the Smithsonian Institution's Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project BDFFP) in Brazil to provide six U.S. graduate students and Ph.D. candidates with support to join sixteen Brazilian graduate students in a research-oriented, field course taught in Portuguese on the ecology of the Brazilian Amazon. The Amazon holds the greatest number of species on earth and produces approximately 10% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the latter primarily from deforestation and habitat conversion and burning. The Amazon is one of the critical keys to reducing biodiversity loss and slowing global climate change. This project will help get more well-trained researchers into the Amazon to study it while there is still time.