Tropical Forest Degradation: Observations, Modeling, and Socio-ecological Implications
Scientific steering committee
David Lapola (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Patricia Pinho (Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; UNDP, Brazil)
Luiz Aragão (INPE, Brazil)
Julia Pongratz (University of Munich, Germany)
Natasha MacBean (University of Indiana, USA)

Attendees
Celso von Randow
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Marcos Costa
University of Viçosa
Liana Anderson
Cemaden
Joice Ferreira
EMBRAPA
Philip Fearnside
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Luciana Gatti
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
David Lapola
University of Campinas
Luiz Aragão
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Ane Alencar
Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Sonaira Silva
University of Acre
Rüdiger Schaldach
University of Kassel
Dolors Armenteras
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Patricia Pinho
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Jos Barlow
Lancaster University
Erika Berenguer
Oxford University
Rachel Carmenta
Cambridge University
Sassan Saatchi
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Charles Koven
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez
Temple University
Peter Lawrence
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Louise Chini
University of Maryland
Kim Calders
Ghent University
Wayne Walker
Woods Hole Research Center
Victor Brovkin
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Mark Rounsevell
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kathy Hibbard
NASA HQ
Alex Ruane
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Zhangang Han
Beijing Normal University
Beto Quesada
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Jeff Chambers
University of California, Berkeley
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