PPG-CST POST GRADUATE SYMPOSIOS



Since 2012, the CST Postgraduate Program has organized the Postgraduate Symposium on Terrestrial System Science (SPGCST), which in 2018 featured its 7th edition. The main objective of this event is to broaden the dialogue and discussions around themes associated with Earth System Science among students, teachers and others interested in this theme. The doctoral students of the course have the opportunity to present the advances in their research projects and discuss with guest speakers and participants about relevant scientific issues of their work. SPGCST has traditionally had the participation of leading researchers in the different areas of CST knowledge through special lectures and roundtables in the interdisciplinary context of the Program.

Below are the activities held at the Symposium organized by the Student Body in 2018. The history of all previous symposia can be found here.

VII SPGCST 2018

Date: December 4 and 5, 2018

Location: INPE Campus of São José dos Campos / SP

Organizing Committee: Erick da Silva Santos, Ana Claudia Rorato, Karina Tôsto, Miguel Trejo and Nathalia do Nascimento

Website: https://spgcst.wixsite.com/viispgcst

Social Networks: https://www.facebook.com/VIISPGCST/ and https://www.instagram.com/spgcst/

1) Lecture: “Perspectives for scientific research in Brazil”

Prof. Dr. Paulo Artaxo (IAG / USP) – Degree in Physics from USP (1977), Master in Nuclear Physics from USP (1980), PhD in Atmospheric Physics from USP (1985). He worked at NASA (United States), Universities of Antwerp (Belgium), Lund (Sweden) and Harvard (United States). He is currently a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics at the USP Institute of Physics. Works with physics applied to environmental problems, acting mainly on global climate change issues, Amazonian environment, atmospheric aerosol physics, urban air pollution and other topics. He is a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the São Paulo State Academy of Sciences (ACIESP). He has published over 400 scientific papers and presented 1,020 articles at international scientific conferences. He has more than 17,900 citations of his work on the ISI Web of Science with an H index of 75 and has published 19 papers in the journals Science and Nature. It has over 39,200 citations in Google Scholar, with a Google Scholar H index of 95. He has coordinated two CNPq Millennium Institutes, is a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and 7 other international scientific panels. He is coordinator of the FAPESP Global Climate Change Program, and a member of INCT Climate Change. He is a representative of the scientific community at CONAMA (National Environmental Council). In 2004, he received a vote of applause from the Brazilian Senate for scientific work on the environment in the Amazon. In 2006 he was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a member of the IPCC team that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2007 he received the Earth Sciences Award from TWAS and the Dorothy Stang Science and Humanities Award 2007. In 2009 he was awarded the title of Doctor. in Honorary Philosophy from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, he received the Fissan-Pui-TSI award from International Aerosol Research Associations. In 2010, he also received the Order of National Scientific Merit, as Commander. In 2016, he received the Admiral Álvaro Alberto Award granted by CNPq, Navy, MCTI and Conrad Wessel Foundation. He is Emeritus Researcher of CNPq. In 2017 it received the Globo Makes a Difference Award.

2) Lecture: “Scientific opportunities for research work outside Brazil”

Dr. Rogério Deienno – Research Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI – Boulder / CO, 2017 – Present). Postdoctoral student at the National Institute for Space Research (2014-2017). Postdoctoral fellow at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France (2016). PhD in Space Engineering and Technology from INPE (2014). Has experience in Astronomy, focusing on Dynamic Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics.

3) Lecture: “Eastern Spirituality to Address Postgraduate Stress”

Osvaldo Murahara – Psychologist, specializes in the teachings of Seicho-no-Ie, which he learned directly from the founder Dr. Masaharu Taniguchi. He has given lectures in the area of ​​oriental spirituality since the 1960s, both in Brazil and in several countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia. He is currently president of the Seicho-no-Ie Masaharu Taniguchi Church, conducts personal and spiritual development seminars, and lectures on television and radio programs.

4) Roundtable: “IPCC Special Report: 1.5ºC Global Warming”

Participants: Dr. Paulo Artaxo (USP), Dr. Marcos Buckeridge (USP) and Dr. Lincoln Muniz (Inpe)

Dr. Marcos Buckeridge – Trained biologist, was a Scientific Researcher at the Botanic Institute of São Paulo (Botanical Garden) for 20 years, where he worked with native tree physiology of several Brazilian biomes. Master from UNIFESP and PhD from the University of Stirling (Scotland), completed his postdoctoral degree at Purdue University in the USA. Beginning in 1999, it began the establishment of a new line of research to understand the effects of global climate change on cultivated plants (sugarcane, soybeans, beans, sorghum, etc.) and native to the Atlantic Forest, Amazon, Cerrado and Caatinga. From 2006, at USP, he discovered how many of these species respond to the highest CO2 in the atmosphere, as well as drought and high temperatures. He co-authored one of the chapters of the Fifth Report of the Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is currently authoring the 1.5oC Warming World Special Report. It also works with bioenergy, deepening studies on sugar cane. Helped found and coordinate the main national and São Paulo initiatives (CTBE, Bioen-FAPESP, INCT Bioethanol), bringing together hundreds of researchers from all over Brazil. Coordinates the USP-Global Cities Program of the Institute for Advanced Studies. It has been devoted to the physiology of urban trees and their importance to cities. Buckeridge has published over 160 book works and chapters, edited four books, one national and three international, mentored more than 50 master and doctoral graduate students. He is editor of international scientific journals such as Bioenergy Research and Trees: structure and function and since August 2015 is President of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo.

Dr. Lincoln Muniz Alves – Researcher at CCST / INPE. It works with the use of climate information in Brazil. Responsible for providing quality technical and scientific information to guide public policies for mitigation and adaptation to regional environmental changes. She is actively involved in various national and international projects, such as Impact Assessment and Climate Change Vulnerability in Brazil and Strategies for Adaptation Options. Contributed to the First National Assessment Report of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change, Third National Communication from Brazil to the UFNCCC and RECCS – Regional Economic Aspects of Climate Change in South America. He was a consultant to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, World Bank, UNDP, ECLAC / UN, among other projects in the area of ​​environmental studies of global change, climate modeling, impacts and vulnerability. He is currently a member of the deliberative council of the Brazilian Meteorological Society. Her research interests are in Earth System Science and Environmental Sciences, acting on the following subjects: atmospheric sciences, climate, meteorology, Amazon and climate modeling, biosphere-atmosphere interaction, climate change and natural disasters.

5) Round Table: “Challenges of interdisciplinarity in socio-environmental approaches in the context of Climate Change”

Participants: Dr. Leila Ferreira (Unicamp), Dr. Norma Valencio (UFSCar) and Dr. Rachel Trajber (Cemaden)

Mediation: Journalist MSc. Nadia Bridges

Dr. Leila da Costa Ferreira – She holds a Bachelor of Ecology from Unesp (1982), a master’s degree in Sociology (1986) and a doctorate in Social Sciences (1992) both from Unicamp. Professor of Unicamp since 1989, postdoctoral at the University of Texas / USA in Public Policy and Environment in 1995 and postdoctoral at the University of York / England in Social Theory and Environment in 2007. Free Teaching in Environmental Sociology (1997). Full Professor at the State University of Campinas since 2004. She was president of ANPPAS (2004-2008). Member of the Lead Faculty of the Earth System Governance Project since 2005. Visiting Professor at the China-Shanghai Top Program Jio Tong University / Summer Course – China. He currently coordinates the Brazil / China Study Group at the Center for Advanced Studies at UNICAMP. Has experience in Sociology, focusing on Environmental Sociology, acting on the following subjects: environmental sociology, sustainability, interdisciplinarity, environmental issue and social theory. CNPq-1D Productivity Fellow. Unicamp Representative to the State Council of Environment (CONSEMA) from 2010 to 2011 and WUN Global Challenges / Adapting to climate change since August 2012. Member of the Superior Council of the Population Studies Center / Nepo and INOVA of UNICAMP . Member of the Environmental Sciences / Capes Committee since August 2013.

Dr. Norma Valencio – Economist, Master of Education (in the areas of Philosophy and History) and PhD in Humanities (in the area of ​​Social Sciences). Acts as Professor. Senior at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) with the Department and the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, where she is deputy coordinator of the Center for Social Studies and Research in Disasters (NEPED) and deputy leader of the Research Group “ Society and Water Resources ”. She was a Collaborating Professor at PPG in Environmental Engineering Sciences at USP (EESC), where she served from 1996-2016, as well as a professor at the Departments of Economics at UFRN, PUCCAMP, UNIMEP and USF. He has published more than a hundred works related to different dimensions (cultural, economic, political, media, institutional) of socio-environmental crises, especially water-related disasters. Today, it focuses on such crises through the approach of complexity and complex systems.

Dr. Rachel Trajber – Degree in French Language and Literature – Univ. Haifa / USP (1978), Master in Anthropology – Purdue University (1982) and Doctorate in Anthropology – Purdue University (1988) / UFSCar (2014). Responsible for the Education project at the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts on Natural Disaster CEMADEN / MCTIC since 2014. She was the General Coordinator of Environmental Education / MEC (2004 to 2012). Practice: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Climate Change, ERRD – Disaster Risk Reduction Education and Public Policy.

Nádia Pontes – Graduated in Social Communication – Journalism from UNESP (1999 – 2002), worked in various communication companies in Brazil and abroad. She was a reporter, editor and presenter at Deutsche Welle, Germany from 2009 to 2015. Winner of the International See Science Show Award for the Future Science and Technology program produced by Deutsche Welle, Germany. Has experience in major international coverage in politics, environment and science. Master in Environmental Science from the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo – PROCAM / USP. He is currently a contributing journalist for national (Folha de Sao Paulo, Super Interesting) and international (Deutsche Welle – Germany, China Dialogue – England, Reuters – England)

6) Presentation on the activities developed at Potsdam Summer School (Germany): “The skin of the Earth: The Earth surface system” – Gisleine Cunha Zeri

Summary: In its fifth edition, the Potsdam Summer School explored the theme: Earth’s surface system, which is driven by geological, biological and climate forces. These forces form a complex system of closely coupled processes and feedbacks that are not yet sufficiently understood. Knowledge of these interactions is essential because the earth’s surface is the basis of all human activity. Its dynamics impact all facets of life, livability and sustainability.

7) Presentation on the activities developed at Bucharest Summer School (Romania): “Urban Climate – Challenges: Monitor, Evaluate and Adapt” – Fabiana Ferreira

Data acquisition systems for urban climate monitoring (rating scales); Human comfort; Biometerorology; Heat related risk

8) Student Presentations

    i) Modeling land-use decision with Bayesian belief networks in agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon – Nathália Cristina Costa do Nascimento – Oriented (res): Dr. Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto and Dr. Jan Borner
    ii) Land use change in the Amazon Basin and deforestation advances over indigenous lands – Ana Cláudia Rorato Vitor – Oriented (res): Dr. Gilberto Câmara and Dr. Maria Isabel Sobral Escada

iii) Spatially explicit modeling for analysis of forest restoration in the Atlantic Forest – Cassia Maria Gama Lemos – Oriented (res): Dr. Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar and Dr. Pedro Andrade

    iv) Geodynamic modeling applied to anthropized slopes of the Rancho Alegre stream basin, São José dos Campos / SP – Frederico Fernandes de Ávila – Oriented (res): Dr. Regina Alvalá and Dr. Rodolfo Mendes
    v) Nitrogen balance in the Upper Paraguay basin – Karina Lima Tôsto – Oriented (res): Dr. Maria Cristina Forti, Dr. Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto, Dr. Felipe Siqueira Pacheco
    vi) Effect of land use and land cover on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peat bogs in the Paraíba do Sul River floodplain – Kelly Ribeiro – Oriented (res): Dr. Plínio Carlos Alvalá and Dr. Felipe Siqueira Pacheco

vii) Socioecological systems and the crisis in the Paraíba do Sul river basin – Alexandre Rodolfo Marques – Advised: Dr. Myanna Lahsen, Dr. Diógenes Alves and Dr. Angélica Toniolo

viii) Climate variability in the planning of solar and wind matrix expansion in Brazil – André Rodrigues Gonçalves – Advisor: Dr. Ênio Bueno Pereira