We are pleased to invite you to Inspire – 7th Fortaleza Austral Spring School, organized by the Postgraduate Program in Tropical Marine Sciences (PPGCMT).

This year, the school’s theme is “TEcosystem Stress Due to Climate Change: Actual Impacts and Future Concerns” Save the Date: November 12th to 14th, 2024.

To address this topic, we will have the participation of several experts from Brazil and the world over three days. 

Registration and programming here.

We are waiting for you!

Inspire Organization Committee – 7th Fortaleza Austral Spring School

Event Agenda

November 12, 2024

• 09:45 – 13:15 | Moderator: Sergio Rossi
  • The Great Climate Acceleration: Trends, impacts, and risks in the global ocean – Antonio Turiel (ICM-CSIC)
  • Coastal Evolution and Climate Change: Where are we going? – Jorge Guillén (ICM-CSIC)
  • Thrive or Collapse: How benthic ecosystems cope with marine heatwaves? – Cristina Linares (UB)
    
    
• 13:15 – 14:30 | Break
  
  
• 14:30 – 17:30 | Moderator: To be confirmed
  • Thinking Climate and Coastal Zones through the Humanities – Joana Gaspar de Freitas (Universidade de Nova Lisboa)
  • Hydro-climate Reconstruction During the Past 1000 Years in Latin America Inferred by Multi-Proxies – Abdel Sifeddine (IRD – FR)
  • Phytoplankton in a Changing Climate: Effects of meltwater in coastal areas of the western Antarctic Peninsula – Martina Mascioni (UNP, Argentina)

November 13, 2024

• 09:00 – 13:00 | Moderator: To be confirmed
  • How Extreme Weather Events Can Affect Coastal Waters – Luci Cajueiro Carneiro Pereira (UFP)
  • Coralline Algal Beds and Their Future in a Changing Ocean – Nadine Schubert (Uni Algarve)
  • Changing Geo-ecological Functions of Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene – Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip (UNAM)
  • Climate Change and Marine Animal Forests – Sergio Rossi (UFC)
    
    
• 13:00 – 15:30 | Break
  
  
• 15:30 – 17:00 | Round Table: Humans and Ecosystems in Front of Climate Change
  • Climatic Extremes and Socio-environmental Elements for the Ecological Transition – Jeovah Meireles (Universidade Federal do Ceará)
  • Climate Change Has Long Arrived in the Southwestern Amazon. What to Do? – Foster Brown (Woodwell Climate Research Center)
  • Extreme Climate Events in the Amazon and Their Effects on Ecosystems and Human Populations – Edson Varga Lopes (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará)

Registration

Join this free event!

Registration is open, and you can sign up through the link : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pb6oEcCOQiejOfv0IgvH9Q#/registration