Field Notes
2012
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February 2012: Fazenda Tanguro, Brazil Research Associate Paul A. Lefebvre recently visited Fazenda Tanguro in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil and the Amazon to continue work started over a year ago. 'Tanguro Ranch', as it’s known, is the site of a tropical ecological research station run by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), at which WHRC and other institutions conduct ongoing experiments. |
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January/February 2012: Orinoco River, Venezuela and Amazon River, Brazil Scientists Mike Coe, Max Holmes, Rob Spencer are on a 12-day trip to the world’s 1st and 3rd largest rivers (the Amazon River in Brazil and Orinoco River in Venezuela). The goal for the Orinoco leg of the trip is to get a feel for this remarkable river, meet with local scientists, and explore possibilities for collaborative research. An overarching element of the trip is the linking of WHRC scientists focusing on river water chemistry (Holmes and Spencer) with those focusing on hydrologic modeling (led by Mike Coe). |
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View Field Notes from 2011: A local Falmouth teacher travels to Mato Grosso in Brazil, postdoctoral fellow Mike Loranty conducts permfarost field studies, various groups collaborate on REDD in Malawi, and a trek to the Yukon are just a few of the topics covered in Field Notes this year. |
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View Field Notes from 2010: One group of WHRC scientists lead pantropical capacity building workshops in in Indonesia, and another complete a field expedition to the Congo Basin where they sample water quality in rivers and streams throughout the region as part of the Global Rivers initiative. |
