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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Decolonizing Carbon: Indigenous-led Climate Change Mitigation in the
Amazon Rainforest<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Abstract:<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Climate change is the most urgent
environmental issue of our time and forests represent an effective nature-based
solution.<span> </span>Tropical forests, among the
top 5 solutions for addressing climate change in Paul Hawken’s book <i>Drawdown</i>,
hold enormous potential for mitigating climate change because of their dual
benefit. Avoided deforestation prevents the release of carbon dioxide and as
trees grow they are a powerful carbon sink that sequesters and stores carbon in
biomass and soils. The primary strategy for climate change mitigation in
tropical forests is the mechanism REDD+, which stands for <i>Reducing emissions
from Deforestation and forest Degradation </i>in developing countries and
includes sustainable forest management, conservation and the enhancement of
carbon stocks (the plus). However REDD+ has been highly controversial for its
failure to address the main drivers of deforestation and constraining the
access of local and Indigenous communities to forest resources. In this
presentation I will share the conceptual framework of an innovative climate
change mitigation project being developed in collaboration with an Indigenous
community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. This project is based on Indigenous
worldviews and adopts decolonial methods that privilege research frameworks
respecting both western and Indigenous forms of knowledge. This project supports
the University of California’s carbon neutral goals and includes a diverse
collaborative team of researchers, Indigenous forest technicians, NGOs staff, a
technology data team, and students in various aspects of the project. Our
intention is to develop a model for Indigenous-led climate change mitigation
that is viable for the larger Amazon Rainforest.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Bio:<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Tracey Osborne is Associate
Professor and Presidential Chair in the Management of Complex Systems Department
and the </span><span style="color:black">Management of Innovation,
Sustainability and Technology<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Program at the University of
California, Merced. </span><span style="color:black;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Her research focuses on the social and political economic dimensions of
climate change mitigation in tropical forests and the role of Indigenous
Peoples, the politics of climate finance (with particular emphasis on carbon
markets), global environmental governance, and climate equity and justice. </span><span style="color:black">She has worked on these issues globally with extensive
field experience in Mexico and the Amazon (Peru, Ecuador and Guyana).<span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> She also leads the Climate Alliance Mapping Project,
a collab</span>orative effort between academics, environmental non-governmental
organizations, and Indigenous organizations working for a socially-just
response to climate change<span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </span>through
research, maps and digital stories.<span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> The mapping
project is an initiative of the </span>Public Political Ecology Lab, which
Tracey founded and directs to support engaged scholarship by communicating
environmental research to broader publics.<span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </span>Her
work has been published in high-impact geography, social science and interdisciplinary
journals, and she has </span><span style="color:black">been invited to share her research internationally in
academic and non-academic venues such as </span><span style="color:black">Conference
of the Parties climate change meetings. She received her PhD from the Energy
and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Organizers for Spring 2020: KJ Min and
Yang Yang<span></span></span></p>
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Berhe<span></span></span></p>
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below. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Yang Yang </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Altitudinal patterns of
nutrient fluxes and pools at the Sierra Nevada</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Jing Yan </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Where small-scale
process matters: linking transport behaviors of nano-sized colloids and
rhizosphere water, nutrient dynamics to soil ecosystem functions</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Dipankar Dwivedi </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Biogeochemical controls
on river water quality: Quantifying dynamic surface-subsurface interactions
using reactive transport models</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Lauren Hale </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Utilizing rhizosphere
microbiomes to improve soil health</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">3/5</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Alex Leven </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Working outside of the
academia </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Eric Slessarev </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ Lawrence Livermore
National Lab</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Using the state-factor
concept to model pedogenesis at the global scale</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">4/2</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Zulema Valdez </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Climate Change and
Wildfire Sufferance among Rural California Residents</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">4/9</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Caddie Bergren </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC ANR</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Climate smart
agriculture</span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">4/16</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Hannah Waterhouse </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC Davis</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Managing greenhouse gas
emissions from agricultural soils</span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">4/23</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Luna Reyes </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Leverage your coding skills to get
your science out there <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">4/30</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Ryan Bart </span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Coupling ecohydrology
with wildfires</span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="color:black">5/7</span><span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Tracey Osborne<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> @ UC Merced<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-GB">Decolonizing Carbon: Indigenous-led Climate Change
Mitigation in the Amazon Rainforest<span></span></span></p>
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