{"id":598,"date":"2019-05-08T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:16:41","slug":"geode-lab-and-others-kick-off-nasa-maintaining-life-on-land-project-in-ecuadorian-cloud-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/geode-lab-and-others-kick-off-nasa-maintaining-life-on-land-project-in-ecuadorian-cloud-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"GEODE lab and others kick-off NASA &#8220;Maintaining Life on Land&#8221; project in Ecuadorian Cloud Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" style=\"width: 847px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"847\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador2.jpg 847w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from our meeting room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Patrick Jantz<\/strong> represented the GEODE lab in Ecuador 24-27 April, 2019 for a kickoff-meeting of the NASA-funded Project \u201cMaintaining Life on Land (SDG15) under Scenarios of Land Use and Climate Change in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru\u201d. The meeting was held at the Maquipucuna Reserve in the Andean cloud forests ~2 hours from Quito, within the Choc\u00f3 Andino de Pichincha Biosphere Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees included representatives from Colombia (Instituto de Hidrolog\u00eda, Meteorolog\u00eda y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM), Instituto Humboldt (IaVH), Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (Minambiente)); Ecuador (Instituto Nacional de Estad\u00edstica y Censos (INEC), Ministerio del Ambiente del Ecuador, PNUD Ecuador); Per\u00fa (Ministerio del Ambiente, PNUD Per\u00fa); the Science Team (Montana State University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Northern British Columbia, and the University of Queensland); NASA, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Nature for Development program.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of two days, the group developed a scope of research and a project workplan aimed at supporting the Sustainable Development Goal reporting needs of the partner countries. In between work sessions, there were hikes through second growth forest and delicious food accompanied by the ubiquitous aj\u00ed de tomate de \u00e1rbol, a spicy sauce made from tamarillos. Patrick, Scott, and a Ph.D. student will work to develop forecasts of risk to water resources designed to inform planning and policy in the three countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-599\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador.jpg 785w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hard at work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" style=\"width: 725px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador4.jpg 725w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stream running through the Maquipucuna Reserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 782px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-601 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador3.jpg 782w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ecuador3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the team celebrate a successful meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Jantz represented the GEODE lab in Ecuador 24-27 April, 2019 for a kickoff-meeting of the NASA-funded Project \u201cMaintaining Life on Land (SDG15) under Scenarios of Land Use and Climate Change in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru\u201d. The meeting was held at the Maquipucuna Reserve in the Andean cloud forests ~2 hours from Quito, within the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/geode-lab-and-others-kick-off-nasa-maintaining-life-on-land-project-in-ecuadorian-cloud-forest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GEODE lab and others kick-off NASA &#8220;Maintaining Life on Land&#8221; project in Ecuadorian Cloud Forest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}