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Thursday, March 27 – Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
Topic 1: Biologic evolution of the amazon
1.oo pm – Welcome by John French, Gustavo Furtado, and Paul Baker
1.30 pm – Dr. Toby Pennington, Professor, University of Exeter: Past, present and future of Amazon tree diversity: a case study using the legume Inga
2.30 pm – Dr. Chris Dick, Professor, University of Michigan: The biogeographic complexity of common Amazonian trees
3.30 pm – Dr. Miles Silman, Professor, Wake Forest University: Ecological and evolutionary responses of tree biodiversity to environmental changes in the Andes-Amazon
4.30 pm – Dr. Lucia Lohmann, President, Missouri Botanical Gardens (MOBOT), Professor Washington University and Universidade de São Paulo: The Origin and Evolution of the Amazonian Biota: An Integrative Approach
5.30 pm – Buffet dinner in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Bay 4, C105
Friday, March 28 – Field Auditorium, Grainger Hall
Topic 2. Climate and Geologic evolution of the amazon
9.00 am – Dr. Paul A. Baker, Professor Emeritus, Duke University: Climate and Paleoclimate of Tropical South America and their relevance to biodiversity, past and future
10.00 am – Dr. Cristiano Chiessi, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo: Orbital and millennial-scale changes in Amazonian climate during the Quaternary
11.00 am – Dr. Pedro Val, Professor, Queens College, CUNY: Hidden in plain sight: the history of the Amazon told by its landscapes
Earth and Climate Sciences Division, Seminar – lsrc a158
12.00 pm – Dr. Cleverson Silva, Professor, Universidade Federal Fluminense: Amazon River Diversion and the Amazon Deep Sea Fan: Impacts on Marginal Subsidence, Sediment Dynamics, and Fluid Migration in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean
Topic 3: Biogeography, Humans, and Conservation of the Amazon – Field Auditorium, Grainger Hall
2.00 pm – Dr. Andre Sawakuchi, Professor, Universidade de São Paulo: Amazon rivers through time
3.00 pm – Dr. Ingo Wahnfried, Professor, Universidade Federal do Amazonas
4.00 pm – Dr. Camila Ribas, Senior Research Scientist, INPA: Amazonian biogeography and conservation: integrating genomics, ecology and local knowledge to understand the effects of landscape change
5.00 pm – Roundtable on the Future of the Amazon
This event is supported by the following sponsors: Duke Office of Global Affairs, Duke-FAPESP SPRINT grant (Paul Baker, PI), Duke-Brazil Initiative, Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Nicholas School of the Environment, Division of Earth and Climate Sciences, Latin American Ecological Thought Reading Group, Duke Office of Climate and Sustainability, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability