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Studying interactions between forest & atmosphere and their impact on the climate from an observatory with a 325m tall tower in the Amazon rainforest

Meet the Amazon Racerunner or Ameiva ameiva. This

Meet the Amazon Racerunner or Ameiva ameiva. This colorful 🦎 is one of the most frequent visitors in the ATTO camp. You can often see them scurrying around, and if you hear a rustling in the litter, odds are it's one of these guys.
They are really pretty, with their tri-colored body, especially if they have this bright turquoise tail🤎💚💙.

#funfact The racerunner is just one of roughly 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ reptile species in the Amazon, more than in all of Europe combined.

📷 by Martin Kunz / MPI-BGC

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A rather new project within ATTO is to use drones

A rather new project within ATTO is to use drones to monitor the forest canopy. We are looking for gaps in the canopy, for example to detect small areas of tree mortality. Drones are super useful because they allow us to cover large areas of forest and areas that are hard to enter on foot very quickly. And we can see things from above, getting us a much better view of the canopy than what we could ever see from below. That means that we can't just see where there are gaps, but with the help of the drone photos also measure their size and geometry.
This work is part of the INVENTA project and currently takes place at the Estação Experimental de Silvicultura Tropical (EEST), run by @inpa_mcti, but is still part of the ATTO project. This is just one example of how the project is growing and expanding beyond the research site with the towers.

Video by Adriana Simonetti Peixoto / INPA.
Music: Baião Destemperado - Barbatuques.

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Let's continue our tour of institutes participatin

Let's continue our tour of institutes participating in ATTO in a big way, and look to the University of Sao Paulo (@usp.oficial). Located in the middle of the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo in the south of Brazil, the campus is a bit of a green oasis. Trees line the streets between the different institute buildings, and parks are scattered throughout.

ATTO scientists work in the Institute of Physics (IF) and the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) that are located right across the street from each other. Here, they mostly study atmospheric processes in the Amazon, similar to (and in collaboration with) MPI-C. Groups in both IF and IAG study aerosols in the atmosphere, and their effects on processes like cloud development and radiation.

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I recently learned that #towertuesday is a thing,

I recently learned that #towertuesday is a thing, so here we go!
Our tall tower does have an elevator 🛗 on the inside, but it is not meant for use by people but is rather a service elevator for transporting equipment and instruments up and down. The platform is only 1x1 meter, and rushing 325 m up on it quite fast seems like a recipe for fear for heights😰, even more so than climbing up. However, it can also be used for rescue, in case somebody ever got hurt up there and couldn't walk down (fingers crossed that never happens! 🤞)

📷 by Steffen Schmidt / MPI-BGC.

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