US-Brazil Workshop: Interactions Between Climate, Forests, and Land Use in the Amazon Basin: Modeling and Mitigating Large-Scale Savannization

0750740 CoeThis award will support a workshop organized by Michael Coe and丹尼尔Nepstad（伍兹霍尔研究中心），Britaldo Soares-Filho（米纳斯吉拉斯州联邦大学），Marcos Costa（维科萨联邦大学），and Yadvinder Mahli（牛津大学）. 为期两天的研讨会将于2008年1月15日和16日在巴西的贝伦举行，将有四个国际科学小组参加，以了解亚马逊流域气候、森林和土地利用之间的相互作用。 本次研讨会的目标是审查我们对亚马逊这些相互作用的了解状况，并设计一个科学计划，以缩小这方面的知识差距。特别强调的是了解亚马逊的哪些地区对森林砍伐，土地管理和气候之间的反馈最敏感，以及如何避免亚马逊盆地大部分地区的快速和永久性森林损失。在国际气候条约（气候公约）的谈判中，人们越来越关注热带森林温室气体排放问题。 许多项目科学家参与《气候公约》进程将把研讨会的结果直接传递给这一进程。10名研究生将参加研讨会，并将积极参与模型模拟，在会议上展示和分析结果，并设计未来的研究计划。

0750740CoeThis award will support a workshop organized by Michael Coe and Daniel Nepstad (Woods Hole Research Center), Britaldo Soares-Filho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Marcos Costa (Federal University of Vicosa), and Yadvinder Mahli (University of Oxford). The two-day workshop will be held January 15 and 16, 2008, in Belem, Brazil, to bring together four international science teams to understand the interactions between climate, forests, and land use in the Amazon Basin. The goals of this workshop are to review the state of our knowledge of these interactions in the Amazon and to design a science plan that could narrow the gaps in this knowledge. The particular emphasis is on understanding what regions of the Amazon are most sensitive to feedbacks between deforestation, land management, and climate and how rapid and permanent forest loss in much of the Amazon Basin can be avoided. Growing attention is being paid to tropical forest greenhouse gas emissions within negotiations of the international climate treaty (UNFCCC). Participation of many of the project scientists in the UNFCCC process will transmit workshop findings directly into this process. Ten graduate students will participate in the workshop and will take an active role in making the model simulations, presenting and analyzing the results at the meeting, and designing the future research plans.