AGENDA
Remote Sensing for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Inventory
São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, 12-15 June 2018
DAY 0 – Tuesday, 12 June – arrival/travel recovery
DAY 1 – Wednesday, 13 June, INPE
07:45 Bus leaves hotel for INPE
09:00 Workshop Launch
Presentations
Director of INPE: Welcome
Thomas Meagher (St Andrews): Objectives of Workshop
All: Introductions
10:00 International Collaboration
Presentation
Internationalization: Professor Raul Machado Neto, Presidente da Agência USP de Cooperação Acadêmica Nacional e Internacional, Universidade de São Paulo – Provost for International Cooperation
UK-Brazil Year of Science – Olivia Panhoca (British Council)
Group Discussion: Why & How
11:00 Breakout and Networking
11:30 Theme 1 – Impact of human history on contemporary ecosystems
11:30 Presentation(s) and panel
Frank Mayle (Reading): What can lake mud and soils teach us about past human-environment interactions in Amazonia?
Rafael Montiel (LANGEBIO-CINVESTAV): Maize domestication: a Paleogenomics perspective
Sanna Saunaluoma (USP): Impact of human history on contemporary ecosystems:
Acre earthworks
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Theme 1- Impact of human history on contemporary ecosystems
Breakout group discussions
14:15 Plenary reports, general discussion
14:45 Theme 2: Biodiversity and ecosystem services
14:45 Presentation(s) and panel
Antje Ahrends (RBGE): Using field data, modelling and GIS to assess land use change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services
James Richardson (Universidad del Rosario): Natural History of Tropical Plants
Simone Vieira (University of Campinas): Atlantic Forest and Global Change: Ecosystem functioning along environmental gradients
15:45 Breakout group discussions (coffee available)
16:30 Plenary reports, general discussion
17:00 Commentary from funders
17:30 Networking reception
20:00 Dinner
DAY 2 – Thursday, 14 June, Cerro do Mar Santa Virgínia
07:00 bus leaves hotel for Cerro do Mar Santa Virgínia
09:30 Welcome and Introduction to Santa Virgínia
10:00 Theme 3: Potential of technology
10:00 Presentation(s) and panel
Justin Moat (RBG Kew): What’s the Point
Peter Kille (Cardiff): How can we exploiting ‘Omics to unlock a changing world
Javier Guerra: Assessing above and below ground carbon stocks
Ali Hussain (STFC): Ground-based Vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy of leafs for discriminating plant species
11:00 Breakout groups
11:45 Plenary reports, general discussion
12:15 Lunch
12:45-17:00 Field exploration
bus to hotel
19:30 Dinner
DAY 3 – 15 June, INPE
07:45 Bus leaves hotel for INPE
08:45 Laura Meagher (St Andrews): Interdisciplinarity: a demanding but rewarding process
09:40 Peter Toledo (INPE): Recent developments in biological samples legislation
10:00 Break
10:30 Theme 4: Contemporary human interaction with the environment
10:30 Presentation(s) and panel
Hugh Mortimer (STFC): Contemporary human interaction with the environment
Dolors Armenteras (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling
JeanOmetto (CCST/INPE): Improvement of biomass estimation methods and emission estimation models for change of land use
11:45 Breakout group discussions (coffee available)
11:45 Plenary reports, general discussion
12:30 Lunch
01:30 Theme 4: Contemporary human interaction with the environment, cont.
01:30 Plenary reports, general discussion
13:45 Final Session: Development of Research Agendas
13:45 Breakout sessions
15:00 Break
15:30 Plenary reports, discussion
16:30 Workshop summary and closing
17:00 Networking reception
19:30 Dinner