What is global warming doing to the Amazon? A group of scientists lead by researchers at the University of Arizona has gotten a $2.5 million grant to look for an answer.
The money for the Partnership for International Research and Education--Amazonia is coming from the National Science Foundation. It includes $1.5 million for student stipends and fellowships. Students in PIRE will do field work in tropical ecology and biogeochemistry in the Amazon and at Brazilian scientific institutions. They will also work in the tropical forest biome at the university's Biosphere 2.
PIRE will draw on several departments at the university, from environmental and atmospheric sciences, to evolutionary biology, anthropology, geosciences and Latin American Studies. The University of Arizona offers a bachelor's of science in environmental science, with concentrations in areas such biology, microbiology, chemistry, soil science and hydrology. The university is also home to the Institute for the Study of the Planet Earth, an interdisciplinary center for environmental and climate change science.
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