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Conference: Climate change and the fate of the Amazon
Oriel College
University of Oxford
20-22 March 2007
Tuesday 20 March
| Time | Speaker | Title | Podcast | Powerpoint slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-11:05 | Derek Morris | Welcome | Listen to podcast | No Slides available |
| 11:05-11:15 | Diana Liverman | Welcome | Listen to podcast | No Slides available |
| 11:15-11:20 | Ian Goldin | Welcome | Listen to podcast | No Slides available |
| 11:20-11:40 | Yadvinder Malhi | Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon: An introduction to conference structure and aims | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 11:40-12:20 | John Schellnhuber | Tipping Points in the Earth System | Not available online | Not available online |
| 12:20-1:00 | Carlos Nobre | Gradual Climate Change or "Tipping Points" in the system | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:00-2:40 | Peter Cox | Was the Amazon Drought of 2005 Human Caused? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:40-3:20 | Jose Marengo | Climate in the Amazon Basin: from interannual variability to climate change | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 3:20-4:00 | Phil Harris | What are the patterns of climate that threaten the Amazon Biome? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 4:30-5:10 | Chris Huntingford | How robust is the HadCM3 Amazon "dieback" result? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 5:10-5:50 | Laurens Ganzeveld | The influence of Amazonian forests and their loss on the chemistry of the atmosphere | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 7:00-8:00 | Thomas Lovejoy | Climate change: prospects for nature | Not available | Download Slides |
Wednesday 21 March
| Time | Speaker | Title | Podcast | Powerpoint slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:10 | Luiz Aragao | The extent and impacts of the 2005 Amazon drought | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 9:10-9:50 | Oliver Phillips | Change in mature Amazonian forests, 1980-2005 | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 9:50-10:30 | Carlos Peres | Biodiversity erosion in fire-prone Amazonian forests | Listen to podcast | Will be available shortly |
| 11:00-11:40 | Patrick Meir | The possibly impacts of drought on Amazonian forests | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 11:40-12:20 | Jon Lloyd | Effects of rising temperatures and C02 concentration on the physiology of tropical forests | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 12:20-1:00 | Sharon Cowling | Physiological responses to temperature and C02 and the extent of the Amazon forest | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:00-2:40 | Monica Senna and Marcos Costa | Structure of Amazonian vegetation in the first half of the 21st Century | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:40-3:20 | Frank Mayle | How stable or variable is the climate of Amazonia? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 3:20-4:00 | Mark Bush | Legacies of pre-columbian disturbance on Amazonian forests | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 4:30-5:10 | Michael Keller | Contemporary processes in Amazonia and implications for the future of Amazonia | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 5:10-5:50 | Dan Nepstad | Interactions between Amazon economies, ecosystems and climate from 1996 to 2050: opportunities for policy interventions | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 5:50-6:30 | Stephen Perz | Land-use decision-making and the future of Amazonia | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
Thursday 22 March
| Time | Speaker | Title | Podcast | Powerpoint slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:40 | Tim Killeen | How can conservation strategies plan for climate impacts in Amazonia? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 9:40-10:20 | Juan Carlos Riveros | Amazon conservation biology: the challenge of representing biodiversity in a changing environment | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 10:20-11:00 | Eduardo Brondizio | Human Dimensions of climate change: the vulnerability of small farmers in the Amazon | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 11:30-12:10 | Emily Boyd | Adaptive governance: a remedy for amazonia? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 12:10-12:50 | Don Sawyer | Amazon interventions and climate change | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:00-2:40 | Timmons Roberts | What drives environmental policymaking in the Brazilian Amazon? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 2:40-3:20 | Diogenes Alves | Social-science perspectives on environmental change in the Brazilian Amazon | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 3:50-4:30 | Richard Betts | What impact would the dieback of Amazonia have on regional and global climate, carbon, water, and energy cycles? | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 4:30-5:10 | Johannes Ebelling | The potential of reducing emissions from deforestation to protect the amazon and mitigate climate change | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |
| 5:10-5:50 | Kevin Conrad | The geopolitics of reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries | Not Available | Download Slides |
| 5:50-6:30 | Yadvinder Malhi | Conference Overview | Listen to podcast | Download Slides |