Joint Brazilian-European facility for climate and geodynamic research on the Amazon River Basin sediments

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.