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Schedule

Amazon Aquaculture Project Workshop

Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, July 04-07, 2022

MONDAY, JULY 4th

12:00 Welcome Lunch

Afternoon Chair: Felipe Pacheco

14:00 Welcome from the Federal University of Rondônia. Carolina Doria and Lariessa Soares

14:05 Workshop presentation and expected outcomes. Felipe Pacheco

14:10 AVF Project overview: Balancing Environmental and Nutritional Tradeoffs of Expanding Amazonian Aquaculture. Alex Flecker, Felipe Pacheco

14:40 Computational sustainability: computing for a better world and a sustainable future. Carla Gomes

15:00 Fish farming as a source of invasive species in natural environments in Rondônia. Carolina Doria

15:20 Coffee Break

15:40 Aquaculture in Brazil. Francisco Medeiros

16:10 Aquaculture in Rondônia. Tamiris Santos

16:40 On-demand surveys on aquaculture in Rondônia. Jucilene Cavali

17:10 Brief wrap-up

 

19:00 Group Dinner

TUESDAY, JULY 5th

Field trip to Ariquemes/RO

Leave at 7 am (3 hours from Porto Velho to Ariquemes)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th

Morning Chair: Suresh Sethi

08:45 Day overview

09:00 Fish and the Amazon bioeconomy. David McGrath

09:20 Fish biodiversity, human nutrition and the dietary transition. Sebastian Heilpern

09:40 Identification of occurrence of non-native species in the Amazon. Lariessa Soares

10:00 Existing literature on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of fish production systems in Brazil. Claire Dileo, Sebastian Heilpern and Felipe Pacheco

10:20 Coffee Break

10:40 Environmental footprint of terrestrial aquaculture in Acre. Bruce Forsberg

11:00 Temporal and spatial approach of GHG emissions from fish farms in the state of Minas Gerais: understanding the fluxes to develop a sustainable production. Nathan Barros

11:20 Open discussion and feedback on the field trip.

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Chair: Sebastian Heilpern

14:00 Discussion on methodological overview of footprint.

15:20 Coffee Break

15:40 Discussion on data availability and ground-truthing.

17:00 Brief wrap-up

 

19:00 Group Dinner

THURSDAY, JULY 7th

Morning Chair: Rafael Almeida

08:45 Day overview

09:00 Strategic territorial intelligence system for aquaculture in Brazil. Marta Ummus

09:20 Tools and possibilities for mapping fish ponds: current effort on mapping ponds in Rondônia and Loreto. Xiangtao Xu (remote) and Felipe Pacheco

09:40 MaPeixe – Digitalizing and integrating the Amazon fish chain. Petterson Vale

10:00 Open discussion on the methodological approach to mapping ponds.

10:20 Coffee Break

10:40 Open discussion on animal source foods in Amazon and tradeoffs.

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Chair: Felipe Pacheco, Rafael Almeida, Sebastian Heilpern and Suresh Sethi

14:00 Discussion on papers on aquaculture in the Amazon.

15:20 Coffee Break

15:40 Main conclusions, key messages, priorities, next steps.

17:00 End of the Workshop

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