One goal, many players
MANAUS, Brazil — “It’s the U.S./Brazil collaboration that really makes this possible,” said Scot Martin, Harvard’s Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry, discussing the GoAmazon2014 project and its many partners. In addition to working closely with the U.S. Department of Energy, his Brazilian collaborators include the Amazonas State University (UEA), the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), the State of Amazonas Research Foundation, the University of São Paulo, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the State Funding Agency of São Paulo, and the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program, which helps facilitate exchanges of students and professors between Brazil and the United States. “Really, we come together as a team,” Martin said. “It’s wonderful to have all of this support.” GoAmazon2014 is part of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), the largest umbrella for research in the Amazon, which explores everything from social issues to scientific inquiries. “Now it’s one of the most important projects...