Physics seminar: The Amazon Near a Tipping Point: The need of a new bioeconomy of standing forests
The Physics seminar this week will meet on Friday, September 27 at 3:00 pm. You can join online at this link:
https://wright.webex.com/wright/j.php?MTID=m98ce55c37eb23185c01d73656e61...
The talk will be by Dr. Carlos Nobre (pre-recorded). The talk was originally presented at the 2022 American Geophysical Meeting when he presented the Frontiers of Geophysics lecture and is titled "The Amazon Near a Tipping Point: The need of a new bioeconomy of standing forests."
We hope you can join us.
Carlos Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil, currently associated with Institute for Advanced Studies, USP. He obtained a PhD in Meteorology at MIT in 1983. Nobre’s work mostly focuses on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system. He chaired the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA). He has been a co-author of several IPCC reports, including the 2007 report that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was director of Center of Weather Prediction and Climate Studies (CPTEC-INPE), and the creator of Center for Earth System Science (CCST-INPE) and of the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN). He was National Secretary for R&D Policies at Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation and President of Brazil’s Agency for Post-Graduate Education (CAPES). He is co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon (www.theamazonwewant.org) and the director of the Amazonia 4.0 project to promote a standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon (www.amazonia4.org). He was International Secretary of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, and full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded several prizes including the Volvo Environmental Prize and the AAAS Science Diplomacy Award.
