Especialistas britânicos e brasileiros se reunem para chamar atenção para o aquecimento global
O UNICENP (Centro Universitário Positivo) em Curitiba realizou o ciclo de palestras da Semana das Mudanças Climáticas.
Foram abordados temas relacionados ao meio Ambiente, biodiversidade e mudanças climáticas, assunto em voga em todas as partes do mundo.
Especialistas Britânicos da Universidade de Newcastle e da London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine vieram especialmente para este evento, que teve palestras transmitidas ao vivo.
Segunda-feira – 3 de setembro
Palestra biodiversidade e Climate Change and soil diversity nutrient Cycling in Soils.
Peter Lurz (apresentação, VIDEO DA PALESTRA)
Anthony O`Donell (apresentação, VIDEO DA PALESTRA).
Terça-feira – 4 de setembro
- Palestra: Mudanças Climáticas e Cidades
Palestrante – Paul Wilkinson – London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
VÍDEO DA PALESTRA
Quarta-feira – 5 de setembro
- Mesa Redonda: A crise da biodiversidade
Profa. Leila Maranho- Unicenp – Coordenador da Mesa
Prof. José Marcelo Aranha – UFPR
Representante da Fundação O Boticário
Dr. Peter Lurz – Newcastle University
Dr. A. G. O´Donnell – Newcastle University
Exposição NORTHSOUTHEASTWEST presente no campus
Conversa sobre parcerias entre pesquisadores brasileiros e britânicos
Mesa redonda sobre mudanças climáticas
Profissionais da Unicenp e professores britânicos
LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
Environmental epidemiologist, with interest in a range of questions relating to environmental influences on health.
His main interest is in:
- climate change (particularly the direct effects of temperature extremes and flooding)
- outdoor air pollution
- housing and the built environment
- energy and health
- risk analysis relating to all the above
Paul Wilkinson´s current/recent research projects include:
- Impacts of London's congestion charging zone and low emissions zone (US Health Effects Institute) Led by King's College, and St George's Medical School
- Impacts of future environmental change on climate- and air pollution-mediated human health (Natural Environment Research Council) With University of Edinburgh
- Health impacts of flooding in the UK (Environment Agency)
- Heat waves in the UK: impacts and public health responses. (Medical Research Council)
- An integrated framework for improving sustainability of the indoor environment (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) With Universities of Manchester, Sheffield and University College, London.
- Development of a local urban climate model and its application to the intelligent development of cities (LUCID) (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) With University College, London and Brunel and Reading universities
- Assessment of health risks associated with poor housing quality, with particular reference to energy efficiency.
- INTARESE (Integrated assessment of environment and health, thematic priority on 'global change and ecosystems' ) (European Commission) With multiple European partners, led by Imperial College London
- Evaluation of the Met Office Health Forecasting Project for primary care and NHS Trusts. (Department of Health)
- Neuropsychological effects of chronic air exposure to carbon monoxide in the indoor air. (Department of Health) With King's College
- Outdoor air pollution, infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes: a geographical and time-series study. (Department of Health)
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My work focuses on ecology, biodiversity and conservation. I am interested in how animals use space and the environment around them; and how Geographic Information Systems and populations dynamics models can be used to investigate space use and population persistence in relation to environmental drivers. For example, drought and forest fires may increase in arid areas as a result of climate change. As a team here at Newcastle we work on multifactorial problems as extinction risks may increase not as a result of one single threat but due to the interaction of several. The future of many species may depend on our ability to predict and manage multiple threats. We have investigated the combined impacts of forest fires, insect damage and forest operations on the endangered Mt Graham red squirrel in Arizona.
We use spatial modelling approaches to investigate the effects of habitat change on endangered species or assess sudden catastrophic events as a result of e.g. freak storms and their impact on forest ecosystems. The models can also successfully be used to predicting the likely spread of invasive species as a result of human intervention or climate change.
Understanding and predicting the impacts of environmental and anthropogenic drivers on population persistence and spread will be increasingly important for effective management as species distributions and ecosystem structures change in response to climate change.
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Professor, Soil Microbiology and Molecular Ecology
Director, Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
Between 1972 and 1976, I studied at the University of Glasgow and graduated in Microbiology in 1976. Keen to pursue a research career, I moved to the Meat Research Institute, Bristol where I researched on the use of pyrolysis and multivariate statistical techniques to classify and identify microorganisms. This research (1976-1979) led to the award of a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1980. My PhD research provided a sound foundation on which to develop my interests in the chemical differences between microorganisms and the analysis of these differences using multivariate statistical procedures (chemometrics). To further these interests I joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at Newcastle in 1979 where I worked as a postdoctoral research associate until 1984. During my postdoctoral training, I was responsible for the development, integration and miniaturisation of chemical procedures for analysing microbial cells and did much of the seminal work on the multivariate statistical analysis of quantitative variation in chemical components such as cell envelope lipids as a means of identifying microorganisms. My five years postdoctoral experience enabled me to develop my skills in analytical chemistry and in the extraction and derivatization of microbial cell components which I have continued to use and refine in my research on soil microbial communities and soil organic matter dynamics.
Over the past 10 years we have maintained our position as one of the leading groups working on the role of microbial communities in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus in soils and waters. Of particular interest is the way in which climate change interacts with soil management to regulate functional diversity and nutrient cycling in soils. Our work has been primarily on grasslands but is being developed to investigate the optimisation of soil management practices for energy crops such as Jatropha curcas. We also have an active genomics and proteomics programme aimed at enhancing yield and oil quality in Jatropha. We make extensive use of genomics, proteomics, bioinformatic and modelling approaches to study gene:environment as well as organism:environment interactions and our research has been supported, mostly by Research Council and Government agencies, by over £5 million in research income. This money has supported a large and thriving soil microbiology/soil nutrient dynamics research team that has produced over 100 research articles.
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