Member Since 2016
Carlos Afonso Nobre
University of Sao Paulo
Carlos Nobre, an Earth System scientist from Brazil, associated with Institute for Advanced Studies, USP. Obtained a PhD in Meteorology at MIT in 1983. His work focus on the Amazon and its impacts on the Earth system. He chaired LBA Experiment in the Amazon. He is co-chair of the Science Panel for the Amazon and the creator of the Amazonia 4.0 project to promote a standing forest bioeconomy for the Amazon and advancing on a study for the creation of the Amazonia Institute of Technology-AmIT.
Professional Experience
UNESP
Professor of Graduate Program on Natural Disasters
2019 - 2022
INPE National Institute for Space Research
Senior Scientist
1983 - 2013
INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research
Engineers
1976 - 1980
University of Sao Paulo
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
1983
Honors & Awards
Publications
Beyond Carbon: The Contributions of South American Tropical ...
September 29, 2022
The world's biggest gamble
October 27, 2016
Climate change: The necessary, the possible and the desirabl...
December 17, 2014
Sustaining ecosystem services: Overcoming the dilemma posed ...
August 22, 2014
AGU Abstracts
Amazon Plays an Important Climatic Role and Deforestation is Promoting Important Changes and a Consequent Increase in the Carbon Balance
TROPICAL FORESTS UNDER A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT II
biogeosciences | 17 december 2020
Luciana V Gatti, Luana S. Basso, Lucas G. Domingue...
We present a nine-year study designed to present both regional and temporal representation of Amazon Carbon Balance from 2010 to 2018 using 590 aircra...
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Is the Amazon near a Tipping Point?
TROPICAL FORESTS UNDER A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT II
biogeosciences | 17 december 2020
Carlos A. Nobre
The long-term ecological balance of the Amazon tropical rainforest is progressively being affected by the simultaneous and synergistic effect of three...
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Carlos Nobre, University of Sao Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies
GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN IN CONVERSATION WITH AGU SCIENTISTS: PROTECTING EARTH’S CLIMATE
union | 11 december 2019
Carlos A. Nobre
Carlos Nobre is a Brazilian Earth System scientist. He is the International Secretary of AGU. Former Chair of International Geosphere-Biosphere Progra...
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Volunteer History
2019 - 2020
International Secretary
Board of Directors
2020 - 2020
Chair
Global Engagement Committee
2019 - 2019
Chair
Global Engagement Committee
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