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Category: Science News

Category: Science News

Political guests and CNPq call

The Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes, took ambassadors to see MCTI projects in the Amazon and announces about R$ 90 million investment in the region. It will be used to build 50 modern laboratories, improve the infrastructure of the ATTO tower and pay for research grants to study the Amazon rainforest via a CNPq call.

2022-02-09 2022-02-09 General / Opportunities
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AGU 2020: Tropical forests under a changing environment

AGU Fall Meeting 2020 meeting will be held virtually during the original 7-11 December dates. We want to draw your attention to one session in particular: Tropical forests under a changing environment. Abstract submission deadline is 29 July.

2020-07-14 2020-10-12 Science News
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Impact of COVID-19 on ATTO

We have minimized our field activities at ATTO due to COVID-19 since last week. Researchers will not travel to ATTO to collect samples or make measurements until further notice. For now, a small core team will continue taking care of our long-term measurements.

2020-04-07 2020-03-30 Science News
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Wind-tree interactions in the Amazon: INVENTA

We have recently taken a big step to further expand our research with the INVENTA/ATTO project to study. Led by Daniel Marra and Susan Trumbore, we want to investigate wind-tree interactions in the Amazon. Our goal is to integrate research on tree architecture and bio-mechanics with atmospheric and biogeochemical processes.

2020-03-06 2021-03-19 Science News
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Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship

Programme Description Applicants for the research fellowship are scientists and scholars from all disciplines with excellent qualifications from Brazil. The funding is designed to support post-doctoral researchers at the beginning of their academic careers as well as experienced researchers who have obtained a doctorate less than 12 years ago. The …

2020-01-23 2020-01-23 Opportunities
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🎞️"Rivers above the canopy" was recently awarded "Best Science Documentary" at the @silbersalzhalle festival. It's about the Flying Rivers of the Amazon and was partially shot at ATTO.🥳
It is not freely available to watch yet, but here is the trailer: https://t.co/oeL5o4v1Qg

SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival @silbersalzhalle

And last but certainly not least... BEST SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY goes to RIVERS ABOVE THE CANOPY! The jury applauds this doc "for putting a highlight on the importance of forests with a focus on both natural & life sciences"

Congrats to @ZED_Films @ARTEfr @grifafilmes

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ATTO - Amazon Tall Tower Observatory @attoresearch ·
15 Jun

Congrats, Ingrid!
And we are happy that she will stay with us a PostDoc to continue her work on tracing the cycling of carbon though the rainforest ecosystems at ATTO.

Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry @MPI_BGC

Congratulations Dr. @ingrid_chanca🎓.
Ingrid recently successfully defended her PhD thesis🥳 on "Theoretical and experimental approaches using Δ14C for estimating system diagnostic times in the central Amazon rainforest", as part of @ATTOresearch project.

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ATTO - Amazon Tall Tower Observatory @attoresearch ·
14 Jun

The Amazon-side of this project is performed at ATTO by the group of Ricordo Godoi. Check out the nice article and video about their research ⬇️

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) @EMSLscience

Researchers from Brazil and Germany are working with EMSL's @chinaswarup to study the atmospheric makeup of the #AmazonRainforest and #Antarctica. This collaborative research could lead to a better understanding of #ClimateChange. https://t.co/WyKqLYkpNz

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Curiosity🤓 is one of the key qualities of any s Curiosity🤓 is one of the key qualities of any scientist. And this curiosity often goes way beyond the themes of your research. It includes stopping in your tracks and investigating a termite road🐜 that's crossing the path around the ATTO site.
SWIPE👉 to see what they are looking at!

📷 by Martin Kunz/MPI-BGC

#Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch  #ecology #forestscience #termites #curiosity #scienceiscool #termiteroad
The number of living things in the Amazon is strik The number of living things in the Amazon is striking, in its diversity but also in its mass.
One of the reasons that makes this possible, is that plants🌱 do not just grow on the limited ground space. They also grow on other plants🌳, increasing the available surface area many times over. This includes climbing plants, epiphytes like orchids (swipe) as well as fungi and mosses (swipe).

📷 by Michael Welling / MPI-C, Andre Luiz Matos & Iris Möbius / MPI-BGC

#Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #ecology #forestscience #orchid #amazonorchid #epiphyte #climbingplants #mosses
At our new Campina site about 5 km away from the t At our new Campina site about 5 km away from the tall tower, it's all about clouds☁️. We have a huge set of instruments there to study them in detail, and @marcomac27 and his colleagues just added new one: a Micropulse Lidar. It is composed of a set of lasers and telescopes🔭 to send micropulses of visible light (, actually, bright green🟢) to learn more about the different characteristics of clouds, like their height, and also about plumes of aerosols in the air.
It looks so cool, don't you think?!😎

📷 by @marcomac27.

 #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #atmosphericscience #cloudresearch #lidar #micropulselidar #scienceiscool #sciencewithlasers #cloudscience
Some years ago, some of our project members starte Some years ago, some of our project members started going into the river communities along the Uatumã river, and specifically into the schools🧑🏽‍🏫. There, they gave presentations about ATTO and our research. But they also talked more broadly about science and the environment. Everyone involved really enjoyed this collaboration, and we were on the brick of expanding it when we were forced to stop during the pandemic.
But we will now restart this project, working closely with the teachers and the Secretary of Education of the region!
We have just installed the first limnimetric scales at Porto ATTO to measure the water level of the Uatumã📏. More will follow soon close to the communities. With our guidance, the school children will monitor the river levels over a full year. The rising of the river by several meters during the wet season is something they have seen all their life. Monitoring this with scientific methods, and learning more about the processes controlling this seasonal shift will hopefully be a really nice school project for them!🤓

A big thank you and to everyone contributing to this fantastic collaboration (first and foremost @cybellibarbosa), who are all organizing and realizing this on top of their normal work!🤗 Obrigada!

#Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #scienceeducation #citizenscience #riverlevel #waterlevel
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