Mês: maio 2018

On May 25, 2018, the 1st Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Workshop was held in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), Department of Water Resources and Environmental Sanitation, as part of the activities of NINFA (Nucleus of Studies on Infrastructure and Environment). This nucleus is led by Dr. Wilson Cabral, associate professor at ITA. Dr. Cabral is engaged to gather a critical mass of researchers to quantify and model ecosystem services, especially those related to Brazilian water resources. The workshop was attended by professionals with different expertise, e.g., ecologists, agronomists, biologists, and environmental engineers. In oral presentations participants focused on methodological approaches to quantify ecosystem services to avoid inadequate management services. CO.BRA team member, Dr. Julia Arieira, who participated in the event, presented a talk on the importance of wetlands as water repositories, based on 10 years of research in the Pantanal wetlands.

Scientists from Slovenia Visited CO.BRA LaboratoryProf. Elena Buzan, molecular biology expert and CO.BRA team member, visited us for ten days in April/ May. She was accompanied by Prof. Boštjan Pokorny, an ungulate specialist and potential future CO.BRA research collaborator. Besides excursions to our Pantanal studies sites and to the Chapada dos Guimarães both biologists presented talks on their research topics (Prof. Buzan: Molecular methods for systematics and evolution, Prof. Pokorny: Management of free-ranging ungulates in Slovenia: basic principles, changes, and perspectives). The oral presentations were well attended by CO.BRA team members, professors, and students from the Biological Institute of the UFMT.