Climate Change in the Amazon Symposium
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Register now for our symposium on Climate Change in the Amazon from 12:30-5 pm on December 6, 2024 at the IACS Conference Room. This symposium brings together six Fulbright Amazonia scholars whose work spans disciplines in human and economic geography, policy, and remote sensing, all focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Amazon. The symposium includes an Ask-Me-Anything lunch for students.
Explore more about the Fulbright Amazonia project
This Amazon-themed symposium will provide the SBU community with opportunities to engage with Fulbright Amazonia scholar during an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) lunch and lab visits. At the AMA, students will hear about each Fulbright Amazonia scholar’s unique career trajectory both inside and outside academia. Such experiences provide a key opportunity to engage with undergraduate students who seek to make a difference through research.
Meet the Fulbright Amazonia Scholars!
We are an integrative science team. Learn more about our areas of expertise and research interests!
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30 | Fulbright Amazonia scholars & students | AMA: Designing and completing an interdisciplinary project: Climate-related disasters in the Amazon |
| 13:00 | Fulbright Amazonia scholars & students | Pizza Lunch |
| 13:55 | Lynch | Opening remarks |
| 14:00 | Ribeiro | Dissemination of scientific knowledge about climate change for extractivist communities in Acre, Brazil |
| 14:20 | Iñamagua | Mitigating climate change through productive landscape design |
| 14:40 | Selaya | Forest health at the Bolivia-Peru-Brazil triple border |
| 15:00 | Interactive panel: Q&A with speakers | |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 | Alencar | How vulnerable are Amazon protected areas? |
| 15:50 | Costa | Options for forest restoration in Brazil |
| 16:00 | Dávalos | Risks from criminal governance in the Amazon |
| 16:30 | Interactive panel: Q&A with speakers | |
| 16:45 | Closing |
Liliana M. Dávalos
Professor of Conservation Biology
I’m interested in biodiversity, both its past and its future.