Education
Education
Our innovative education program combines international collaboration with
interdisciplinary training in earth system science, in which graduate and undergraduate students will:
(1) work in the Amazon rainforest, first as students in an annual field course in tropical ecology
and biogeochemistry, and then (for graduate students), as teachers in a structured graduate
mentoring of field research projects;
(2) develop intensive collaborations with Brazilian scientists and students through exchanges at
Brazilian scientific institutions, and develop projects leveraging the extensive datasets and
facilities available only as a result of close international PIRE collaboration;
(3) acquire rigorous training in key disciplines for the scientific study of Amazônia, and the
environment generally (ecology and biogeochemistry, hydro-meteorology and climate) using
state of the art tools in remote sensing and modeling.