PPG-CST GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM HISTORY



I SPGCST 2012

Dates: November 26 and 27, 2012

Locations: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP (day 26) and Cachoeira Paulista / SP (day 27)

Organizing Committee: Luz Adriana Cuartas, Celso Von Randow, Mariane Coutinho, Vagner Camilotti and Angélica Giarolla

1) Student Presentations

i) Analysis and modeling of ecophysiology (photosynthetic responses) of Caatinga species in field and under high CO2 concentration (in laboratory) – Luiz Felipe Campos de Rezende – Advisor (s): Dr. Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto and Dr Celso von Randow

ii) Study of vulnerability of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes to climate change scenarios – André de Arruda Lyra – Advisor (s): Dr. Chou Sin Chan and Dr. Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira

iii) Representation of surface processes by the ETA model in western Pará – Isabel Lopes Pilotto Domingues – Advisor (s): Dr. Javier Tomasella and Dr. Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira

iv) Modeling the carbon balance and hydrological cycle in the Amazon rainforest in the first half of the 21st century – José Guilherme Martins dos Santos – Advisor: Dr. Celso Von Randow and Dr. Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira

v) Evaluation of hydrological responses to land cover scenarios in tributary basins of a reservoir in southern Minas Gerais – Adriana Koumrouyan – Advisor (s): Dr. Dalton de Morisson Valeriano and Dr. Luz Adriana Cuartas Pineda

vi) The role of floodplains in the Silver Basin water balance and impacts on agriculture in future climate change scenarios – Caroline Estéphanie Ferraz Mourão – Advisor (s): José Antonio Marengo Orsini and Dr. Chou Sin Chan

vii) Flood and flood forecasting using numerical weather forecasting for hydrological modeling of the Itajaí-açu River basin, SC – Leandro Casagrande – Advisor (s): Dr. Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá and Dr. Javier Tomasella

viii) Numerical study of the effect of burning aerosols on the hydrological cycle and energy balances in the Amazon – Ricardo Almeida de Siqueira – Advisor (s): Dr. Saulo Ribeiro de Freitas and Dr. Karla Maria Longo de Freitas

ix) Application of a land use model in the simulation of the land degradation process in semi-arid Brazil – Rita Marcia da Silva Pinto Vieira – Advisor (s): Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá and Dr. Javier Tomasella

x) Modeling of the environmental determinants of malaria in Porto Velho (RO) – Jussara Rafael Angelo – Advisor (s): Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre and Dr. Luiz Hildebrando Pereira da Silva

xi) Methodological foundations for the development of a national lightning alert system – Flávio de Carvalho Magina – Advisor (s): Dr. Osmar Pinto Junior

xii) Impacts of climate change and changes on the extreme wind regime and its effects on the Brazilian energy sector – Marcelo Pizzuti Pes – Advisor (s): Dr. José Antonio Marengo Orsini and Dr. Enio Bueno Pereira

xiii) Impact simulation of mangrove sea level rise: a proposal based on hybrid cellular automata – Denilson da Silva Bezerra – Advisor (s): Dr. Silvana Amaral Kampel and Dr. Milton Kampel

xiv) Food security and agri-food systems – Camille Lanzarotti Nolasco – Advisor (s): Dr. Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto and Dr. Myanna Hvid Lahsen

xv) Experimental approach to action strategies for community lake zoning in Silves / AM – Eduardo da Silva Gigliotti – Advisor (s): Dr. Roberto Araujo de Oliveira Santos Junior and Dr. Patrícia Fernanda do Pinho Koberle

xvi) Carbon paths responding to water mass mixing patterns in hydroelectric reservoirs – Felipe Siqueira Pacheco – Advisor (s): Dr. Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto and Dr. Plínio Carlos Alvalá

xvii) Contribution of forest degradation by logging and forest fires on Amazon CO2 emissions – Juliana Paiva Nunes Kury – Advisor (s): Dr. Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar and Dr. Dalton de Morisson Valeriano

II SPGCST 2013

Dates: December 2nd and 3rd, 2013

Locations: INPE Campus of Cachoeira Paulista / SP and São José dos Campos / SP

Organizing Committee: Mariane Coutinho, Myanna Lahsen, Gilney Bezerra, Jussara Angelo, Vagner Camilotti

1) Student Presentations

i) Analysis of the vulnerability to natural disasters resulting from landslides in climate change scenarios in the Serra do Mar, São Paulo State – Pedro Ivo Camarinha – Advisor (s): Dr. Chou Sin Chan and Dr. Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá

ii) Arctic sea ice extent based on results of the Brazilian Earth System Model – Fernanda Casagrande – Advisor (s): Dr. Paulo Nobre

iii) Identification of the association of physical factors involved in the extreme flood event that occurred in São Luiz do Paraitinga, SP, 2009/2010 – Fernanda Viana Paiva Arguello – Advisor (s): Dr. Laura de Simone Borma e Dr. Diogenes Salas Alves

iv) Meat Production and Consumption in Brazil: Risks, Obstacles and Possibilities for Change in the Current Configuration of this System – Janaina Michelini – Advisor (s): Dr. Myanna Hvid Lahsen

v) Hydrological flows and transfer of carbon and nitrogen chemical species at the soil-atmosphere interface in Brazilian semiarid environments – Karinne Reis Deusdará Leal – Advisor (s): Dr. Maria Cristina Forti and Dr. Laura de Simone Borma

vi) Ecosystem services and human well being in the Brazilian Amazon: contributions from a landscape perspective – Vagner Luis Camilotti – Advisor (s): Dr. Maria Isabel Sobral Escada and Dr. Patrícia Fernanda do Pinho Koberle

vii) Land use detection and monitoring with high temporal resolution remote sensing data – Victor Wegner Maus – Advisor (s): Dr. Gilberto Câmara

viii) Carbon paths in Brazilian Cerrado deforestation: an approach to estimate greenhouse gas emissions – Alan de Brito – Advisor (s): Dr. Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar and Dr. Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira

ix) Amazon conservation might not be the end of deforestation in Brazil – Elói Lennon Dalla-Nora – Advisor (s): Dr. Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar

x) Brazilian sectoral trends in GHG emissions: the 2020 scenario – Zoraida Soeiro – Advisor (s): Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre

xi) Horticulture and its role in agri-food systems and urban food and nutrition security in times of global change: an analysis of the surroundings of São Paulo, Brazil – Camille Nolasco – Advisor (s): Dr. Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto e Dr. Myanna Hvid Lahsen

III SPGCST 2014

Date: December 1st and 2nd, 2014

Location: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP

Committeê Organizer: Mariane Coutinho, Plinio Alvalá, Anahi Sobral, Carla Roig, Fernando Cavalcante, Gilney Bezerra, Karine Rocha, Karinne Reis, Victor Nascimento

1) Lecture: “News and trends in the international scientific writing”

Prof. Dr. Gilson Luiz Volpato (Assistant Professor – III Associate Professor – UNESP).

2) Student Presentations

i) Integrating remote sensing and hydrogical modeling to study climate and hydrological extremes impacts in large wetlands of the Bolivian Amazon – Alex Ovando Leyton – Advisor (s): Celso Von Randow and Dr. Javier Tomasella

ii) Modeling the transport of carbon and nitrogen in the lithosphere-hydrosphere system and application to the Pantanal, Alto Paraguay Basin – Aline Anderson de Castro – Advisor (s): Dr. Luz Adriana Cuartas Pineda and Dr. Antônio Donato Nobre

iii) The sugarcane expansion in Goyaz and the relevance of selected environmental services in economic valuation process – hybrid input-output matrix approach for 2007-2010 – André Luiz Miranda Silva Zopelari – Advisor (s): Dr. Roberto Araújo de Oliveira Santos Junior

iv) Study of natural emissions in the Amazon Forest region: oxidative capacity of the atmosphere – Fernando Cavalcante dos Santos – Advisor (s): Karla Maria Longo de Freitas

v) Influence of different parameters of the barotropic tide on the slope of the south atlantic thermocline – Mabel Calim Costa – Advisor (s): Dr. Paulo Nobre

vi) Impacts of meteorological phenomena on seasonal forecasts of solar energy potentials in Brazil – Maria Francisca Azeredo Velloso – Advisor (s): Dr. Fernando Ramos Martins and Dr. Enio Bueno Pereira

vii) Evaluation of agricultural yield estimates generated by the Aquacrop model using observed data and seasonal climate forecast – Minella Alves Martins – Advisor (s): Dr. Javier Tomasella and Dr. Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá

viii) Impacts of climate change on coffee productivity in areas of southeastern Brazil – Priscila da Silva Tavares – Advisor (s): Dr. Chou Sin Chan and Dr. Angélica Giarolla

ix) Factors influencing environmental vulnerability in Ceará: an institutional assessment – Karine Rocha Aguiar Bezerra – Advisor (s): Dr. Myanna Hvid Lahsen and Dr. Maria Carmen de Mello Lemos

x) Evaluation of simulations with LES code in the study of short and medium term wind regime for northeastern Brazil – Lucía Iracema Chipponelli Pinto – Advisor (s): Dr. Fernando Ramos Martins and Dr. Enio Bueno Pereira

xi) Assessment of future impacts of climate change on southwestern Atlantic marine ichthyofauna and implications on fishing activity and species conservation – Sandro Klippel – Advisor (s): Dr. Silvana Amaral Kampel and Dr. Lúbia Vinhas

IV SPGCST 2015

Date: November 23 and 24, 2015

Location: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP

Committeê Organizer: Carla Roig, Carolina Paiva, Gilney Bezerra, Luciene Gomes, Marcio Malafaia, Marcos Sanches, Maria Francisca, Raquel Melo, Raquel Carvalho and Victor Nascimento

1) Lecture: “Interdisciplinary Approach to Research”

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Moretti

2) Student Presentations

i) Modeling the transport of carbon and nitrogen in the lithosphere-hydrosphere system and application to the Amazon Basin – Aline Anderson de Castro – Oriented (res): Dr. Luz Adriana Cuartas and Dr. Antônio Donato Nobre

ii) Prediction of landslides through mathematical modeling – Carla Pietro – Oriented (res): Dr. Carlos Nobre, Dr. Silvio J. C. Simões and Dr. Rodolfo M. Mendes

iii) Extreme lightning events in the state of São Paulo: observed cases and future scenarios – Ana Paula Santos – Advised: Dr. Osmar Pinto Júnior and Dr. Everaldo Barreiros De Souza

iv) Political role of companies in Brazilian agribusiness: analysis of its implications for sustainability – Lira Luz Benites Lázaro – Oriented (res): Dr. Myanna Lahsen

v) Influence of hydrometerological variability on the territorial logics of livestock in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil – Ana Gabriela de Jesus Araújo

vi) Impacts of land use change and land cover on the nitrogen balance in the Cerrado – Luciene Gomes – Oriented (res): Dr. Jean Pierre H. Ometto, Dr. Eloi L. Dalla-Nora and Dr. Maria Cristina Forti

vii) Brazilian Amazon forest biomass assessment for deforestation-driven carbon emissions modeling – Graciela Tejada Pinel – Oriented: Dr. Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto and Dr. Eric Görgens

viii) Root dynamics in relation to seasonal nutrient availability and different levels of wet deposition in tropical forests – Lucinéia da Silva Sousa-Mendes – Oriented (res): Dr. Maria Cristina Forti and Dr. Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto

ix) Decennial effect of the ocean in the southern Atlantic mode: a modeling study – Sandro Miguel Veiga – Oriented (res): Dr. Carlos Nobre

x) A spatial model for management of municipal solid waste for the state of São Paulo – Victor Fernandes Nascimento – Advised: Dr. Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto and Dr. Pedro Ribeiro de Andrade.

V SPGCST 2016

Date: November 17-18, 2016

Location: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP

1) Lecture: “Stress in graduate school”

Coach Eduardo Corrêa

2) Poster session

3) Collective planting of seedlings of native species in an INPE forest, symbolizing the legacy of research carried out at PPG-CST for future generations.

4) Round Table: “Terrestrial System Scientist Labor Market”

Participants: Teachers and graduates of the Course

5) Student Presentations

i) Impacts of land use changes on storm tracks over South America in future climate scenarios – Philipp Edson Dias da Silva – Advisor: Dr. Mariane Mendes Coutinho

ii) Characterization and sensitivity of isoprene emissions to environmental conditions in the Amazon, Pantanal and transitional forest between Amazon and Cerrado – Anahi Chimini Sobral – Advisor (s): Dr. Plínio Carlos Alvalá and Dr. Celso Von Randow

iii) Evaluation of the distribution and evolution of CO2 concentration in the atmospheric boundary layer on the Amazon rainforest – Diego Jatobá dos Santos – Advisor (s): Dr. Celso Von Randow

iv) Study of the impact of cloud cover variability on solar energy power generation – Eduardo Weide Luiz – Advisor (s): Dr. Enio Bueno Pereira and Dr. Fernando Ramos Martins

v) Flood control on soil-plant-atmosphere relations in a floodplain in Tocantins State – Iane Brito Tavares – Advisor (s): Laura de Simone Borma

vi) Land use and change in climate pattern changing the limnology of Paraíba do Sul River – Marcio Malafaia Filho – Advisor (s): Dr. Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto

vii) Connectivity between volatile organic compounds and cloud formation in the Amazon, a study from the genetic programming technique – Marcos Barbosa Sanches – Advisor (s): Dr. Celso Von Randow

viii) Intensification and changes in land use and land cover in the Amazon: an analysis of secondary vegetation trajectories in different livestock production systems – Raquel Carvalho de Lima – Advisor (s): Dr. Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar and Dr. Roberto Araújo from Oliveira Santos Júnior

ix) Transition to sustainability and the water-energy-agriculture nexus: application of the sustainability barometer in the municipalities affected by the São Lourenço producer system and the potential for participatory scenarios – Raquel Henriques Melo Santos – Advisor (s): Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar e Dr. Myanna Hvid Lahsen

VI SPGCST 2017

Date: October 30 and 31, 2017

Location: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP

1) Lecture: “Climate Change, Sustainability, Science and Governance”

Dr. Thelma Krug – Graduate in Mathematics and PhD in Space Statistics (Univ. Sheffield 1992). She is accredited on the expert panel of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and was elected IPCC Vice-President in 2015. Thelma has served on the SERE and OBT leaderships with INPE, was director of the Policy Department for the Combating Deforestation (2016/2017) and Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Quality at MMA, as well as Secretary for S&T Policies and Programs at MCTI. Participated in the coordination of the Latin American Society for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (SELPER), the Large-Scale Amazon Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment (LBA), and the International Union of Forestry Research Tropical Forests Data Sub-Program. Organizations (IUFRO). He was co-chair of the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Task Force and was a member of the IGBP / IHDP Land Use / Cover Change Project Scientific Committee of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Small Satellite Subcommittee and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Board of Trustees.

2) Debate: “Towards Note 7”

Table: Plinio Alvalá, Kleber Naccarato, Angelica Giarolla and Laura by Simone Borma

3) Welcome Café́ – Poster Session

4) Gaia in Game board game sessions

5) Student Presentations

i) Big Earth observation data and adaptive filtering for fast detection of deforestation – Alber Hermersson Sanchez Ipia – Advisor: Gilberto Câmara

ii) Water security of Paraíba do Sul River – Ana Carolina da Encarnação Paiva – Oriented (res): Javier Tomasella and Daniel Andres Rodriguez

iii) Quantitative assessment of sustainability in watersheds: a case study of the lower Rio Grande watershed (GD8), Minas Gerais – Janaína Ferreira Guidolini – Oriented (res): Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto and Angélica Giarolla

iv) Evaluation of the phenology and growth of an Amazon-cerrado transition forest integrating field observations and remote sensing – Leticia D´agosto Miguel Fonseca – Advisor: Laura de Simone Borma

v) Identification of land use trajectories in Brazil – Talita Oliveira Assis – Advised: Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar, Carlos Afonso Nobre and Celso Von Randow

vi) Integration of passive solar technologies as a strategy to promote cooling in residential areas in the city of São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil and amplify their energy efficiency – Fabiana Lourenço e Silva Ferreira – Advisor: Enio Bueno Pereira

vii) Desertification processes associated with rainfed crops in Chile for the present and future climate – Rosa Carolina Zamora Aguirre – Oriented (res): Mariane Coutinho, Angélica Giarolla, Fernando Santibañez

viii) Flood influence on soil-plant-atmosphere relations in a Tocantins floodplain – Iane Brito Tavares – Advisor: Laura de Simone Borma

ix) Study of cloud cover variability for application in solar energy generation – Eduardo Weide Luiz – Oriented (res): Enio Bueno Pereira and Fernando Ramos Martins

x) Dynamics of secondary vegetation in cattle ranching land use systems – Raquel Carvalho de Lima – Supervisors: Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar and Silvana Amaral