Find support and connection this summer with a new year long series: Climate Science for the World’s Worry.
The next workshop in this immersive series will be Challenges and Opportunity in the Amazon Forest with Dr. Carlos Nobre.
You can join us on August 31 for this workshop from 5pm to 6.30pm PDT.
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Dr. Nobre will discuss how close the Amazon forest is to a tipping point of “savannization” and the consequences of that for the maintenance of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
He will also address the challenges of creating a sustainable ‘standing forest-flowing rivers’ bioeconomy, bringing about nature and community-based solutions.
Carlos Nobre is an Earth System scientist and currently a senior researcher at the University of Sao Paulo’s Institute of Advanced Studies. In 1983 he received his PhD in Meteorology at MIT.
For most of his professional career he has been at Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE) and was one of the creators of INPE’s Center for Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC).
He has been a director for 12 years (1991-2003).
He is the creator of INPE’s Center for Earth System Science and also the creator of Brazil’s National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN).
He was Program Scientist for the Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA Experiment-1996-2004).
He is co-president of the Science Panel for the Amazon (www.theamazonwewant.org and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, member of the World Academy of Science and the Brazilian Academy of Science.
He has been the National Secretary of R&D of Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and President of Brazil’s Post-Graduate Education Agency (CAPES).
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This is part of the Climate Science For Our World’s Worry – The Resonance and Climate Series 2022
To see the entire collection, click here:
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