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