Bert gives talk at MundoAgro 2008

Federico Bert gave an invited talk during the 2008 edition of MundoAgro, held on 11-12 September 2008 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. MundoAgro is a major event in the Argentine agribusiness community, and is attended by over 1500 farmers and technical advisors linked with agricultural production in Argentina. The scientific agenda of the event was coordinated by Dr. Emilio Satorre, another investigator in this project.

Bert’s presentation was titled “Current and future responses to climate variability: possible impacts on cropping outcomes” and focused on the potential impacts of decadal climate variability on agricultural production systems in the Pampas. He showed that the recent expansion of agricultural production in the Pampas (associated with both increased precipitation and enhanced technologies). This was Bert's second consecutive participation in MundoAgro: in the 2007 edition he talked about year-to-year climate variability and its links with crop production.

  >> See Bert’s presentation at MundoAgro 2008 (PDF, 1,560KB)

After the talk, Federico was interviewed by AgroTV, an Argentine cable television channel focused on agricultural production. The 8-minute interview [in Spanish] can be seen below.

UK researcher explores possible collaboration on coupled natural/human systems

Dr. Mark Reed, an expert on environmental management and stakeholder participation, visited the University of Miami (UM) in early July of 2008 to explore possible areas of collaboration with UM researchers participating in the NSF-sponsored Argentina project. Mark was at the time affiliated with the Sustainability Research Institute of the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, although he has since taken a position at the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).

During the visit, he met with Guillermo Podesta, Dave Letson and Kenny Broad. Various areas of collaboration where complementation and synergies could be achieved were identified, and a joint report was prepared for UK and US science funding agencies.

Mark Reed (left) with Dave Letson	Mark meets with Kenny Broad