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UNIFAP researchers exchange - INPA / PPBio / CENBAM May 2010

Dr. Alan Cunha, from UNIFAP - Federal University of Amapá, partner of PPBio and CENBAM, is in Manaus participating in the Basic Multivariate Course, from April 26 to 30.
 
This professor will be responsible for teaching the statistics and multivariate analysis courses for the Post-Graduation in Ecology at UNIFAP, which has an agreement with the Post-Graduation in Ecology at INPA and with PPBio.
 

Seminar on Monitoring Biodiversity Impacts in Forest Concession Areas is held in Rondônia

Seminar on Monitoring Biodiversity Impacts in Forest Concession Areas, focusing on the National Forest of Jamari, held in Porto Velho / RO and the National Forest of Jamari / RO on March 30 and 31, 2010.
 
 
 

Exchange with University of California researcher

Researcher Paul Fine (University of California) is in Brazil to participate in an Exchange activity with PPBio / CENBAM researchers.
 
Location: Inpa / Manaus, Amazonas.
 
Period: from 9 to 14 June.
 
The purpose of the visit was to plan research together, integrating PPBio studies with studies of permanent plots being carried out in Peru and French Guiana.

Exchange of researcher PPBio / CENBAM in biological collections in Rio de Janeiro

Researcher Jorge Luiz P. de Souza, visited the biological collection of ants at the Zoology Museum of the University of São Paulo from June 14 to 17, 2010, where he was received by Dr. Rogério Rosas.
 
From June 21 to 25, 2010, the researcher visited the biological collection of ants at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ where he was received by associate professor Dr. Antonio J. Mayhé Nunnes.
 

Training on the implementation of Metacat and Morpho software

Researcher Matthew Jones, from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis - NCEAS, was in Manaus from 5 to 12 June 2010 to conduct training on the implementation of Metacat software (a free and flexible data and metadata repository to store data scientific, especially related to studies in biology and environmental sciences) and Morpho (a metadata editor). This software was developed by the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) and will be used by PELD projects in Brazil.

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