Regina C.C. Luizão, Coordenadora do Treinamento e Educação - LBA

Progress Report in Training & Education

Nov. 2005

Regina C.C. Luizão, Coordenadora do Treinamento e Educação - LBA

• EXECUTIVE MEMBERS Regina C.C. Luizão (INPA)Mercedes Bustamante (UnB)  Plínio Camargo (CENA/USP) Beatriz Gomes  (UNIR-Ji-Paraná) Ivani Pereira (LBA-ECO Project Office at Goddard) Edson Rocha  (UFPA-Belém) Lourdes Ruivo (Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi) Francisco Lobo  (UFMT) Cláudio Carvalho (Embrapa)

• CONSULTATIVE MEMBERS Rita Mesquita (INPA) Elsa Mendoza (UFAC) Ricardo Figueiredo (Embrapa)

Marcos Heil Costa (UFV) José Francisco de C. Gonçalves (INPA) Alejandro Fonseca  (UFAC)

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LBA students and fellows by categories (1998 - 2005)

Estudantes* Total

B.Sc. 380

M.Sc. 297

Ph.D. 241

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Total 932

* No technicians and post-docs included

Students Productivity

Published Abstracts

Papers & Books

Registered 1114 321

Survey in progress ? ?

OBS: As of August/05 972 papers were registered for LBA wide. So far 33% of LBA papers include participation of students as authors.

De 11 a 13 de julho de 2005

• 428 registrations• 210 oral + posters approved• T&E supported 80 students• total cost: about R$171.000,00

Sponsors

II CEB-LBA SPONSORS

LBA Central Office + MCT: staff support, air tickets, hotel and stipends, coffee-break, transfer, etc.

NASA/LBA-ECO: staff support for Folha Amazônica and Book of Abstracts production and edition, Website design and development. Also the rental of STUDIO 5 Convention Center.

PETROBRÁS: financial support for the Handbags, for the Folha Amazônica and Book of Abstracts, some advertising materials and banners.

IAI: three air tickets for south American young scientists

Students’s Incentive Awards: donations of books by INPA, PIATAM, IPAM, MPEG, Scientific American Brasil, IEB, Pró-Várzea.

De 11 a 13 de julho de 2005

- 350 participants

- 26 talks by invited scientists

- 51 oral presentations by the students

- 107 posters

- 28 young scientists awarded

LBA-ECO Phase III – T&EDe 11 a 13 de julho de 2005

Students from Santarém Students from Acre

Posters session

Special thanks for the staff at the LBA Central Office

II Congresso de Estudantes e Bolsistas do LBA

Peter Griffith Ivani PereiraBeth NelsonAmy MorrelLisa Wilcox

Maura Tokay

Special thanks to LBA-Eco Project Office staff

Folha Amazônica – Special edition – dedicated to the Training & Education

This special edition showed an overview of the research activities and training accomplishment including undergraduate and graduate courses resulted from the synergism among LBA and the associated Institutions.

Cursos

1. Curso de Mestrado em Física e Meio Ambiente- UFMT – Cuiabá-MT

2. Curso de Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Regional e Meio Ambiente/UNIR – Porto Velho-RO

3. Curso Ciências Ambientais. Multi-Institucional (UFPa, MPEG e Embrapa) – Belém-PA

4. Curso de Licenciatura em Física Ambiental/UFPa– Santarém/PA

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS INITIATED OR STRHENGTENED UNDER LBA INSPIRATION

Master Program - Física e Meio Ambiente- UFMT

Inititiated in 2002 with three lines of research:1) Urban climatology2) Remote Sensing3) Biosphere-atmosphere interactions

M est r ado

So far 53 students in four annual applications entered the program. 20 have already concluded it

• Thematic Areas:

• Environmental Phisics• Climatology of the Amazonia• Biosphere-atmosphere interactions

• Ecosystmes and Land Use• Ecology and Amazonian Ecosystems • Social and environemtnal impact of

land use change.

• Application test: June 2005• Begining of 1st. class: August/05

Multi-Institucional Program (UFPa, MPEG e Embrapa)

MASTER PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE – 1ª. Class started in August 2005

CARLOS JOSE C. BISPO Estudo do Balanço de Água em Áreas de Floresta e de Cultivo de Soja no Leste da Amazônia

Edson José Paulino da Rocha (UFPA)

FLERIDA S. M. DA SILVA Estudo dos impactos de mudanças de cobertura vegetal e do clima no ciclo hidrológico da Amazônia: abordagem de micro-escala.

Maria Aurora Santos da Mota (UFPA) Luis Candido ( INPA - LBA)

JEAN MICHEL CORREA Implicações do uso agrícola dos solos sobre populações de peixes em igarapés no município de Igarapé-Açú

Ricardo Figueiredo (EMBRAPA)

JOSIVAN DA C. BELTRAO Influencia do Arco do Desmatamento sobre o Ciclo Hidrológico no Leste da Amazônia

Julia C. P. Cohen (UFPA)

MARIA BEATRIZ S. ROSA Transporte do Carbono Terrestre para Sistemas Aquáticos na Amazônia Oriental

Ricardo Figueiredo (EMBRAPA)

PAULO MARQUES VIEIRA Estudo de Impactos decorrentes da fragmentação da paisagem em áreas de influência da BR-163, Rodovia Santarém - Cuiabá

Mateus Batistella (EMBRAPA) e Adriano Venturieri

SABRINA FORTE E SILVA Aplicação de um Modelo de Gestão em sub-bacias do Rio Uraim, Paragominas

Ricardo Figueiredo (EMBRAPA)

WILLIAMS M. CASTRO Titulo de tese não definido Não definido

Multi-Institucional Program (UFPa, MPEG e Embrapa)

NEXT CALL FOR THE MESTRADO INTER-INSTITUCIONAL EM CIÊNCIAS AMBIENTAIS - UFPA/MPEG/EMBRAPA 141 candidates from Amazonia: 15 candidates with previous history in LBA

Eliete dos Santos Souza -  (Rio Branco - AC)Henning Ferreira da Silva- (Santarém - PA)    Joelma Dezincourt Dias  - (Santarém - PA)Irene Cibelle Gonçaves Sampaio - (Santarém - PA)Livia da Silva Oliveira - (Manaus - AM)Nívia Maria da Silva Oliveira - ( Manaus - AM)Rejane da Rocha Costa – (Belém-PA) Douglas Batista da Silva Ferreira – (Belém-PA)Brenda Rocha Guimarães - (Belém-PA)Brenda Magda Nascimento Costa - (Belém-PA)Ivan da Costa Lobato Junior– (Belém-PA)Marco Antonio Vieira Ferreira – (Belém-PA)Mariane Furtado Gonçalves – (Belém-PA)Flávio Texeira Basante – (Belém-PA)Ludmila Monteiro da Silva – (Belém-PA)

Multi-Institucional Program (UFPa, MPEG e Embrapa)

Undergraduate Program in Environmental Phisics – UFPa-Santarém

Undergraduate Program in Environmental Phisics

UFPa - Santarém

New positions were open for professors: • Valéria Rodrigues de Oliveira• Ronaldo Lopes Rodrigues Mendes• Alexandre Guimarães Rodrigues • Mauro Antonio Andreata• Waldeci Paraguassu Feio

New Assistant for T&E in Santarém: Rodrigo da Silva, rodrigo@lbaeco.com.br

“New” CNPq scholarships

“New” scholarships – RHAE/CNPqRemaining balance of the old program – a 6 month period, started last OctoberPriorities• to complete the process of production of the LBA series of booklets• production of papers as a result of theses and dissertations1 1

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9 for graduates

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Dimensões Humanas

Física do Clima

Mudanças no Uso da Terrae da Cobertura VegetalBiogeoquímica

Armazenamento e Trocade Carbono

37 bolsas were implemented: 5 for booklets and 27 for papers

1. Berta Becker – Revisão das Dimensões Humanas

2. Mercedes – Biogeochemistry of the Cerrado

3. Flavio – Nutrient cycles in Forest Ecosystems

4. Jean Ometto: Use of isotopes

5. Laura: Modelling

LBA-ECO Phase III – T&E

Perspectives for continuing T& E activities in phase III (in addition to formal training to graduate students these

teams are planning to organize seminars, workshops, short training courses, booklets, etc)

CD-34 – Chambers / Higuchi / J. dos Santos / CamargoCD-37 – Lefsky / CarneiroLC-30 – Walsh / MedinaLC-31 – Foley / Costa LC-33 – Asner / BustamanteLC-34 – Moran / BatistellaLC-35 – Csiszar / Longo / Setzer C-37 – Daniel Nepstad / Soares-Filho / AlmeidaLC-38 – Melillo / CerriND-30 – Davidson / Carvalho / Figueiredo / VieiraTG-30 – Potter / Bustamante / Ferreira / Cosme de Oliveira