Project beneficiaries
Institut de recherche pour le développement
France
Fundação Universidade de Brasília
Brazil
Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Voor Zeeonderzoek
The Netherlands
Jacobs University Bremen Ggmbh
Germany
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
Germany
Universiteit van Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italy
Edito
Climate change and its implications in the dynamics of the Amazon basin rivers impact directly in the day-to-day life of the local population. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms involved in these processes may provide a valuable basis with a view to set up useful environmental and social policies that would help to mitigate those changes. Furthermore, as the Amazon River basin represents a huge natural laboratory, this scientific initiative may bring together relevant information to understand climate change in a global context.
The CLIM-AMAZON project is a joint Brazilian-European scientific initiative supported by the EU (European Union) through the FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development).
This co-operation aims at fostering exchanges between Brazilian and European scientists in the area of geosciences and environmental studies, by means of scientific meetings, visits of experienced European researchers in Brazil, PhD and Post Doc calls open to European universities proposing to develop new research approaches in the Amazon region, a world-class example for climate research.
In this context, we will study temporal sedimentary records to understand the mechanisms involved in climate and geodynamic changes and the processes involved in dissolved and suspended load evolution of the Amazon River basin from the Miocene (23 Ma) to the present.
Publications
CLIM-AMAZON in the XV Brazilian Congress of Geochemistry - Brasilia 2015- 2015 Annual Meeting/ 4th Workshop and Clim-Amazon results presentation in the 6th Ore-Hybam Conference - Cusco 2015
For the CLIM-AMAZON project fencing, the 4th CLIM-AMAZON Workshop and the International Symposium on Climate and Geodynamics of Amazon Basin (2015 CLIM-AMAZON Annual Meeting) will take place in Brasilia on the 21st and 22nd of October 2015, respectively, during the XV Brazilian Geochemistry Congress (19th-22th October 2015).
The CLIM-AMAZON results will be presented also in Cusco during the 6th Ore-Hybam Conference (26th-30th October 2015).
For more information about the XV Brazilian Geochemistry Congress, click here:
http://www.sbgq.org.br/15cbgq/
For more information about the 6th Ore-Hybam conference, click here
6th HYBAM Scientific Meeting - Cusco 2015 (1.29 Mo)