Recent and expected activities: program progress Regina C.C. Luizão INPA/LBA The Training and Education Committee presents.

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1 Recent and expected activities: program progress Regina C.C. Luizão INPA/LBA The Training and Education Committee presents

2 and capacity building numbers LBA-DIS, INPE, NASA e escritórios regionais Escritório central Coordenadora

3 Young scientists status Undergraduates187 Masters124 Doctors160 TOTAL471 = 30% of total (1569) members of LBA

4 Where do the young scientists come from? N = 408

5 Scholarships categories (2000-2003) N = 408 bolsas

6 Scholarship funding sources 1999-2003 CNPq = 60%

7 Final products for students degree Bachelors Degree30 MSc Theses59 PhD Dissertations103 TOTAL192

8 RHAE/LBA Program: 2000-2002 CNPq scholarship categories 50 DTI 42 ITI 02 EV 04 short term (BSB, BEP) TOTAL = 98

9 Former RHAE/LBA students Former RHAE/LBA students selected for graduate programs 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 AMPAROMT No de estudantes 26 students (28%)

10 Category Number ITI 22 DTI 24 TOTAL 46 RHAE/LBA Program for 2003-2005

11 Scholarships distribution among sites DTI ITI

12 Scientific production Scientific production and capacity building and capacity building Authorship distribution Total PublicationsStudents-authors 38277 Young scientists contributed with 20% of publications.

13 LBA-ECO Business Meeting & VI Congresso de Ecologia do Brasil, LBA-ECO: 60 young scientist were first authors of the 130 posters presented This week events VI CEB: ~70 posters in the LBA session (among the 1500 in the whole event) T&E supported 34 young scientists

14 Short Training Courses in 2003 1. Desmistificando a prática da escrita: uma introdução à produção de textos em contexto científico. Instrutora: Ivani Pereira (LBA-Eco) (23 participantes) 2. Dinâmica da Fragmentação da Paisagem Amazônica (PDBFF/LBA/INPA. Instrutores: INPA, UFAM, MP e SIPAM (20 participantes anuais desde 2000) 3. Uso de Isótopos Estáveis em Estudos de Carbono Instrutores: Jean Ometto & Plínio Camargo (CENA/USP) (20 participantes) Santarém Manaus

15 Short Training Courses in 2003 Cachoeira Paulista Curso de Verão (IAI / LBA) Curso de Verão (IAI / LBA) " Mudanças de cobertura e uso da terra na Amazônia: padrões, processos e cenários (plausíveis)no CPTEC/INPE, de 12 a 24/10/2003. (20 participants from all Amazonian countries) 10 LBA members (5 non-resident with full support)

16 Scheduled Short Courses - 2003 Ecologia da Floresta Amazônica: A Base Científica para Conservação e Manejo Instrutores: Daniel Nepstad (UFPa/NAEA, UFRJ), Moacyr Dias-Filho (Embrapa) e Lisa Curran (Yale University) Locais: Belém e Santarém Período: 19/11 a 03/12/2003. 15 vagas

17 Sheduled Short Course for 2004 Modelagem de Sistemas Ambientais Dinâmicos Curso itinerante com laboratório portátil de informática (12 notebooks) Instrutor: Marcos Heil Costa (UFV) Período: começa a circular em janeiro de 2004, Locais: Cuiabá, Brasília, Tocantins, Belém, Manaus, Rio Branco,... 12 vagas

18 Short Course Proposals for 2004 Uso de Sensoriamento Remoto em Ecossistemas Amazônicos: Princípios, Aplicações e Aplicativos Instrutora: Evlyn Novo (INPE). Em Santarém 15 vagas Despertar para a ciência Instrutores: Oswaldo Carvalho Jr. e Paulo Moutinho (IPAM). Em Santarém. 15 vagas

19 UFMT graduate course Física e Meio Ambiente, created in 2002 1) Urban Climatology 2) Remote Sensing 3) Biosphere - Atmosphere Interactions 2 classes in progress and application for the third opened: 37 students.

20 New Graduate Program: New Graduate Program: Gestão Ambiental Integrada da Amazônia (GAIA) Multi-institucional (Embrapa, MPEG, UFPA), in Belém (Master and PhD) Inspired by the products of LBA, SIPAM e GEOMA. Coordinator: Leonardo de Sá (MPEG) Submitted to Capes

21 Proposal for a new University in Acre Proposal for a new University in Acre A Universidade do Século XXI na Floresta do Alto Juruá – Acre Subsídios e pressupostos para um novo projeto PROMOÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ACRE SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DA EDUCAÇÃO GABINETE DO DEPUTADO HENRIQUE AFONSO GABINETE DO SENADOR TIÃO VIANA APOIO MINISTÉRIO DE CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA MINISTÉRIO DA EDUCAÇÃO MINISTÉRIO DO MEIO AMBIENTE GABINETE SENADOR SIBÁ MACHADO PREFEITURA MUNICIPAL DE CRUZEIRO DO SUL PREFEITURA MUNICIPAL DE THAUMATURGO UNICAMP

22 PAN-AMAZONIA Project for the Advancement of Networked Science in Amazonia European Union funding: 400,000 euros, starting Jan 2004 1. Aim: To facilitate comparative studies of tropical forest plots ACROSS Amazonian countries in (i) forest dynamics; (ii) tree biodiversity; (iii) carbon and water cycling 3. Production of training manuals in above, and translation into Portuguese, Spanish, French 4. Funding of at least 8 PAN-AMAZONIA FELLOWSHIPS (two years with funds for travel and fieldwork) for South American students Coord. Yadvinder Malhi (ymalhi@edin.ac.uk)

23 Teachers from UFPa and ULBRA are using LBA results to update high school textbooks. Preparation of booklets, videos and CDs are also planned for elementary school students. Team: 3 students of RHAE/LBA (2 ITI e 1 DTI), trainees and volunteers from physics, biology and pedagogy. Selected themes for the 1st year: water cycle and carbon cycle Educational Material Educational Material Target: elementary and high school Project TE-02: Project TE-02: Elinei Santos (UFPA-Santarém)

24 TE-02 office at Campus II - UFPa

25 Educational material Target: undergraduate students A DTI scholarship was given to her for organizing LBA data provided by the scientists in a format and content that can be used as a lecture at all Brazilians Universities Initially, a series of booklets about some of the themes of LBA (max 60 p.) In the future, re-organize them in a Book about Ecossistemas Amazônicos Projeto TE-01: Projeto TE-01: Sylvia Bahri (LBA)

26 Educational material for undergraduate students Some themes under development 1. Climate of the Amazonia 2. Carbon Dynamics 3. Dynamics of Secondary Vegetation 4. Biogeochemistry changes 5. Fire impact and dynamics 6. Waters of Amazonia

27 Editorial board for educational materials (SSC, May 2002) Paulo Artaxo Luis Martinelli Cláudio Carvalho Hans Dolman Foster Brown Rafael Herrera Pedro Dias Eduardo Brondízio Flávio Luizão