GC41D
Extreme Climatic Events and Natural Disasters in Amazonia: How to Adapt and Mitigate? Posters

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Irving Foster Brown, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States; Federal University of Acre, MECO/PZ, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Conveners:  Jose A Marengo, Cemaden, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil, Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Luiz EOC Aragão, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Chairs:  Irving Foster Brown, Federal University of Acre, MECO/PZ, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil; Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jose A Marengo, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
OSPA Liaisons:  Irving Foster Brown, Federal University of Acre, MECO/PZ, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil; Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
 
Welcoming Remarks
 
Panel Discussion
 
Concluding Remarks
 
Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts (61466)
Jose A Marengo, CEMADEN, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil
 
Strengthening Adaptation to Extreme Climate Events in Southwestern Amazonia: an Example from the Trinational Acre River Basin in the Madre de Dios/Peru – Acre/Brazil – Pando/Bolivia (MAP) Region. (68261)
Irving Foster Brown, Federal University of Acre, MECO/PZ, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
 
Impacts of Landscape Context on Patterns of Wind Downfall Damage in a Fragmented Amazonian Landscape (68650)
Naomi Schwartz1, Maria Uriarte2, Ruth S DeFries2, Victor H Gutierrez-Velez2, Katia Fernandes3 and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez4, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (3)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Columbia University, Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability, New York, NY, United States
 
Complex Socio-Ecological Dynamics driven by extreme events in the Amazon (69365)
Patricia FERNANDA Pinho, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
The Challenges from Extreme Climate Events for Sustainable Development in Amazonia: the Acre State Experience (71403)
Maria de Nazareth Mello Araújo, Governo do Estado do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil
 
Drought Legacy and the Impacts on the Amazon Forest Carbon Exchange (77635)
Sassan S Saatchi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Trying to Learn Lessons for Response to Extreme Events: Paradigm Shifts Affecting Civil Defense in the Trinational Region of Southwestern Amazonia (78343)
George Luiz Pereira Santos, Defensa Civil Rio Branco, Rio Branco, Brazil
 
Unravelling the Drivers of the Recent Drought over Sao Paulo (Brazil) using HadCM3 (79532)
Kanhu CHARAN Pattnayak1, Julia Claire Tindall2, Roel Brienen1, Jessica Baker1, Dominick V Spracklen2 and Emanuel Ulrich Gloor3, (1)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
Projections of climate change effects on discharge and inundation in the Amazon River basin (80761)
Rodrigo C. D. Paiva1, Mino Sorribas1, John M Melack2, Charles Jones2, Leila V Carvalho2, Juan Martin Bravo1, Edward Beighley3, Bruce R. Forsberg4 and Marcos Heil Costa5, (1)UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Hydraulic Research, Porto Alegre, Brazil, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (5)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
 
Is the seasonal forest more vulnerable to drought effects in tropical Amazonia (82066)
Liang Xu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Proof of the Post-drought Effect of Amazonian Forests from Space (82449)
Yan Yang, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Ecological carbon sequestration via wood harvest and storage (WHS): Can it be a viable climate mitigation and adaptation strategy for the Amazon? (85398)
Ning Zeng, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
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