INTERNACIONAL SEMINARS



SEMINÁRS 2011

14/04/2011
Unpacking the Social Construction of ‘Natural’ Disaster through Policy Discourses and Institutional Responses/The Case of Chalco Valley’s Floods, State of Mexico
Palestrante: Dr. Fernando Aragón-Durand

06/05/2011
Brasil@home: An initiative to Promote Citizen Cyberscience
Palestrantes: Prof Francois Grey (CERN – UNITAR – University of Geneva), Dr. Philip Brohan (UK Meteorological Office), Dr. Dan Rowlands (Oxford University/UK)

19/08/2011
Amazon wetlands: Inundation, vegetation and greenhouse gas evasion
Palestrante: Dr. John Melack (University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA)

15/09/2011
“Multidisciplinary approaches to fire and options for integrating traditional knowledge with scientific – technical research in Canaima National Park, Venezuela”
Palestrante: Dra. Bibiana Bilbao (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)

16/11/2011
Synergies and trade-offs of global environmental and land-use policies
Palestrante: Dr Michael Obersteiner (IIASA)

16/11/2011
Climate change and infrastructure projects:impact synergies and societal adaptation in the MAP frontier, southwestern Amazonia
Palestrante: Dr Stephen Perz – University of Florida -USA

16/11/2011 A pegada ecológica e a ideologia do crescimento
Palestrante: Dr Philipe Léna (IRD)

21/11/2011
A socio-ecological metabolism approach for analysing land use processes in the Earth system
Palestrante: Dr Karlheinz Erb (Alpen-Adria University)

21/11/2011
Human vulnerability to land-use changes: conceptual and methodological issues in vulnerability studies
Palestrante: Dr Andrea Lampis (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

SEMINÁRS 2013

27/03/2013
Getting “AGU – Earth System Science” to Real-World Resource Agencies: Applications of a Dynamic Information Framework in Asia, Africa, and South America
Palestrante: Prof. Jeffrey Richey (Pesquisador da Escola de Oceanografia, Universidade de Washington)
Mediadora: Dra. Patrícia Pinho/ (CCST/INPE)

SEMINÁRS 2014

24/09/2014
Ser ou Não Ser? Etnia e as Questões da Terra
Palestrante: Dra.Véronique Boyer (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS/ Paris)
Mediador(a): Dr. Roberto Araújo de Oliveira Santos Júnior (CCST/INPE)

SEMINÁRS 2016

16/06/2016
The global water cycle: interactions and feedbacks
Palestrante: Dr. Han Dolman (Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Mediador(a): Dr. Celso von Randow (CCST/INPE)

15/08/2016
Human-wildlife conflict: human dimensions and global priorities
Palestrante: Dra. Alexandra Zimmermann (Univ.Oxford)
Organizado pelo PPG-SER / OBT / INPE

SEMINÁRS 2017

15/03/2017
Development of an Operational Regional multi-model Air Quality Prediction System
Palestrante: Dr. Guy Brasseur (World Climate Research Programme – WCRP)
Mediador(a): Dr. Celso von Randow (CCST/INPE)

SEMINÁRS 2018

03/09/2018
The relevance of lianas on remote sensing of tropical environments
Palestrante: Dr. Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa (University of Alberta)

07/11/2018
Long-term Landsat time series – a new opportunity for forest diversity research
Palestrante: Wanda Graf – PhD student at the chair of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, University of Göttingen, Germany
Mediador(a): Kleber Pinheiro Naccarato Randow (CCST/INPE)

SEMINÁRS 2019

08/08/2019

(1) “Investigation into the Cloud Edge Effect at Brasilia and Petrolina”
Student: Hayley Firth
Supervisors: Enio Bueno Pereira, Madeleine Sánchez Gácita Casagrande, Francisco José Lopes de Lima e Eduardo dos Santos Pereira – Laboratório de Modelagem e Estudos de Recursos Renováveis de Energia.

The talk will cover how clouds can amplify irradiation hitting Earth’s surface, the ways in which this can occur, and the different thresholds to categorize this phenomenon. Many interesting patterns were seen in the Brasilia January and Petrolina February data sets, which includes sky camera images, and will be discussed.

(2) “Understanding the Cerrado Region of Brazil and Its Projected Changes”
Student: Louis Wood
Supervisor: Manoel Cardoso – Interação Biosfera-Atmosfera

The talk will examine the biodiversity of the Cerrado region of Brazil with respect to climate and land use, as well as their projected changes. I will first look at the relation between the biodiversity in the region and various bioclimatic variables, such as mean annual temperature and precipitation seasonality. Then, by considering the predicted changes in climate and land use to the year 2050, the areas of high biodiversity to be most affected can be identified. While most studies of this nature examine the effects of these changes on a certain species or genus, this talk will look at the effect on the region as a whole.