Andes-Amazon Project Meeting- May 2011

Andes-Amazon Meeting: Belem and Caxiuana, Brazil

May 17-24, 2011

*May 17th: There will be a sub-meeting with the Caxiuana project collaborators at the Museu Goeldi

*May 18th & 19th: Moore Project Meeting held at Hotel Regente

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Attendees and Presenters

Rafael Bras
Andrea Castanho
Bradley Christoffersen 
Mike Coe
Marcos Heil Costa
Chris Doughty
David Galbraith
Naomi Herra
Hewlley Imbuzeiro 
Yadvinder Malhi
Patrick Meir
Daniel Metcalfe
Paul Moorcroft
Gabriel Moreno 
Laszlo Nagy 
Tom Powell
Scott Saleska
Abigail Swan
Ke Zhang

Lodging

Reservations have been made at the Regente Hotel.

Regente Hotel

 

Transportation and Directions

Val de Cães International Airport Belém - PA Brazil


1.

Head southwest

170 m

2.

Turn right

17 m

3.

Turn left

400 m

4.

Turn left

33 m

5.

Turn right toward Rod. Artur Bernardes

600 m

6.

Continue straight onto Rod. Artur Bernardes

400 m

7.

Turn right to stay on Rod. Artur Bernardes

4.4 km

8.

Turn right at Av. Pedro Álvares Cabral

1.7 km

9.

Turn right at Av. Doca/Av. Visc. de Souza Franco

110 m

10.

Turn left at Av. Mal. Hermes

22 m

11.

Turn left at Av. Doca/Av. Visc. de Souza Franco

1.2 km

12.

Turn left at R. Boaventura da Silva

140 m

13.

Take the 1st right onto Tv. Alm. Wandenkolk

280 m

14.

Turn right at Av. Gov. José Malcher Destination will be on the right

73 m

Hotel Regente Av. Governador José Malcher, 485 - Nazaré Belém - Para, 66035-100, Brazil

Price for taxi from airport to the Regente Hotel is R$35 wich is about $22-24 USD

Meeting Agenda

Andes-Amazon Project Meeting Schedule
May 17-19, 2011

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Museu Geoldi

 

 

9.00am-5.30pm

 Caixuana project science sub-meeting

 

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Hotel Regente, Belem

9.00 am

Welcome (Paul)

9.15 am

Prof. Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa (UFPA)

10.00 am

Results of the Drought Simulation Experiments (Tom, David and Hewelley)

10:45 am

Morning Coffee Break

11:00 am

Results of the Drought Simulation Experiments continued. (Tom, David and Hewelley)

12:00 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm

Analysis of the short-term ecosystem dynamics at the 10priority sites (Naomi)

3:00 pm

Afternoon Coffee Break

3.30pm

Results of the regional model simulations (Ke and Andrea)

4:45 pm

End of the Day Wrap-up (Paul)

5.00 pm

Meeting Adjourns

7:00 pm

Dinner

Thursday, May 19, 2011 Hotel Regente, Belem

7:30 am - 8:30 am

Breakfast

9.00 am

Dr. Lazslo Nagy (LBA/INPA)

9:30 am

 

Results of long-term simulations of above-ground biomass and NPP model data comparisons (Naomi & David)

10.45 am

Morning Coffee Break

11.15 am

Hydrologic dynamics model-data comparison (Brad)

12:00 pm

Lunch

1.30 pm

Scientific consensus paper regarding the vulnerability of different Amazonian ecosystems to climate change (Mike Coe)

2.15 pm

Site-level and Regional level meteorological driver (Bras)

3:00 pm

Afternoon Coffee Break

3.30pm

Break-out groups: (1) future work plans for the site-level simulations, (2) experimental manipulations and (3) regional simulations

4.15pm

Reports from the breakout groups

4:30 pm

End of the Day Wrap-up (Paul)

4.45 pm

Meeting Adjourns

5:30 pm

Travel by taxi to the Port of Belem to catch the ferry to Breves

 

Meals

Complementry breakfast,coffee breaks and lunch will be provided at Hotel Regente

 

Caxiuana Field Visit Itinerary

May 19 (travel)
Evening: Take commercial passenger boat from Belem to Breves (~12 hours)

May 20 (travel) 
Morning: Arrive in Breves/Travel to Caxiuana; on the Ferreira Pena (owned by the Museu Goeldi, ~9 hours)
Late afternoon/Evening: Arrive in Caxiuana

May 21 (Field visit)
Morning: Visit ESECAFLOR (drought experiment) plots
Afternoon: Visit TOWER plot and TEAM plot:

Click here for more details on the TEAM project

May 22 (Field Visit)
Morning:Visit Terra Preta plot
Afternoon: Visit site of archaeological interest (Ilha da Terra'- about 1 hour away from the research station);

May 23 (travel)
Morning (~7:00): leave Caxiuana for Breves on the Ferreira Pena
Evening (~18:00): take commercial passenger boat from Breves to Belem/arrive in Belem early on May 24

Stay tuned for more details.

updated 5/15/11