2025 ATTO Summer School - Amazon forests under global change

Tropical forests play a crucial role in global carbon and biogeochemical cycles. However, their response to global changes—such as biodiversity loss, land use change, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases, rising temperatures, and alterations in precipitation patterns—remains highly uncertain. In this context, the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) project takes an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating meteorology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, biogeochemistry, and forest ecology, to study the Amazon Forest in light of global change. All these research fields are investigated with different approaches, ranging from observations to model-data integration and model simulations. During the summer school, attendees will develop activities of field measurements, data analysis, and modeling, within the ATTO project scientific framework. The program will commence with two days of introductory lectures and safety training in Manaus, followed by field measurements, data analysis, and modeling at the ATTO experimental site in the Uatumã Reserve, located approximately 150 km from Manaus.