YCNCC SCIENTISTS ATTEND SYMPOSIUM TO MARK THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TANGURO RESEARCH STATION

Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Co-Director Liza Comita and Scientific Leadership Team member Paulo Brando attended the Tanguro Science Symposium July 10-12 in Brasilia. At the Symposium, which was convened to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Tanguro Research Station, Liza presented an overview of YCNCC, highlighting opportunities for collaboration with research at Tanguro. Paulo provided a synthesis of twenty years of ecological research in southeast Amazonia and a glimpse of how to avoid future loss of forests’ trees to wildfires, droughts, and fragmentation.    

The Tanguro Research Station, located in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, was founded by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) in partnership with the company Amaggi and the Woodwell Climate Research Center. The Station serves as an open-air lab for the study of agricultural, ecological, and Earth systems that affect the southeastern Amazon, and hosts scientists from around the world who collectively have published over 180 high-impact articles in scientific journals based on research at Tanguro. 

Tanguro is located in one of the driest regions of the Amazon, and one of the most endangered – threatened both by increasingly drastic impacts of climate change as well as by years of intensive agriculture expansion. The partnership between YCNCC and Tanguro represents a major opportunity to research and advance mechanisms and practices that would allow these vital forests to survive, and continue to provide critical ecosystem services, while also permitting the development of a more ecological and climate-friendly agriculture.