Recent activities
Capacity building
| Activities | Venue and Date |
Partners and Organizer |
Exploring criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration: A synthesis and way forward |
Online webinar, zoom, 17 December 2020 |
BRG, CIFOR,USAID, NICFI, FAO, UNEP, GPI |
Exploring criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration: Governance and socio-economic attributes |
Online webinar, zoom, 19 November 2020 |
BRG, CIFOR,USAID, NICFI, FAO, UNEP, GPI |
Exploring criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration: Biophysical attributes and peatland fires |
Online webinar, zoom, 14 October 2020 |
BRG, CIFOR,USAID, NICFI, FAO, UNEP, GPI |
Exploring criteria and indicators for tropical peatland restoration |
Online webinar, zoom, 2 September 2020 |
BRG, CIFOR,USAID, NICFI, FAO, UNEP, GPI |
Community Based Mangrove Management |
Rufiji River Delta-Tanzania 2020 |
Rufiji Mangrove Research and Training Forest (MRTF), |
Stakeholder workshop on Sectoral Guidance |
Songdo-Korea |
Green Climate Fund (GCF), CIFOR, COWI (Danish consulting firm) |
Inception meeting of Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL) project |
Bali-Indonesia |
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), CIFOR, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) |
Inception meeting of Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL) project |
Bali-Indonesia |
Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), CIFOR, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) |
Tropical Peatland Mapping Workshop |
Peru |
MTRI, USFS, CIFOR, INAIGEM, Peruvian National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), National Water Authority (ANA), Agency for Environmental Assessment and Enforcement (OEFA), and MINAM, and international private institutions were Law, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN), ProBosque-JICA, Center for Ornithology and Biodiversity (CORBIDI), and HELVETAS PERU, National Agrarian University (UNALM) and USFQ |
Identifying optimal mangrove restoration methods in Madagascar – scoping activity |
Madagascar, 2020-2021 |
University of Antananarivo School of Agronomic Sciences Department of Forestry, graduate student |
Restoration and management assessment |
Senegal, 2020 |
Peace Corps Senegal, the Institute of Science and Environment (ISE) University of Dakar, restoration and management practitioners |
Piloting community-based mangrove ecosystem monitoring |
Ghana, 2020 |
USFS, Ghanaian NGO |
Developing ecological, economic and social indicators for performance assessment in mangrove restoration sites in Yucatan |
Mexico, 2020 |
CINVESTAV |
Second Regional workshop on Blue Carbon in Latin America and NDCs (II): hands on the Common Reporting Format Tables for GHG Inventories under the UNFCCC, the IPCC 2006 and revised 2019 guidelines |
Latin America, 2020 |
UNFCCC Secretariat, VERRA, Voluntary Carbon Market |
Extracting lessons learnt for successful mangrove restoration: hydroecological modelling and improved measurement of carbon stock changes along a chronosequence of restored sites in Yucatan |
Mexico, 2020 |
TNC, Cambridge University |
Country Mangrove Decision Support Tool (DST) |
Vietnam, 2020 |
scientists from the Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Watershed Professionals Network |
Capacity-building for national-scale mapping of peatlands in the Andes and Amazon of Peru |
Peru, 2020 |
IIAP and INAIGEM |
Eddy Flux Training |
Peru, 2020 |
IIAP scientist and technician |
Communicating science to policy for sustainable management and conservation of mangroves in the Rufiji Delta, Tanzania |
Tanzania, 2020 |
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Capacity building for improved mangrove restoration and management in Senegal |
Senegal, 2020 |
USFS, Institute of Science and Environment |
Regional Workshop on Incorporating Blue Carbon in the Nationally Determined Contributions |
Vietnam, 8-10 July 2019 |
Blue Forest, CI, IPBC, giz, IPCC, IUCN, RECOFTC, Silvestrum, UNE, Winrock International |
Towards the Regulation of Peatlands in Peru |
Peru, 2019 |
Ministry of Environment (MINAM) |
Regional mangrove restoration workshop in West Africa |
West Africa, 2019 |
USFS, West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change, Wetlands International |
Enhance community-based mangrove management and restoration in Ghana |
Ghana, October 2018 |
NGO, Community Based |
Development of a regional mangrove restoration manual |
Tanzania, 2018 |
United Nations Environment Program , Univ. of Dar es Salaam |
Training workshop on Carbon Dynamics and Water Regimes in Rewetted Peatlands |
Riau-Indonesia, 13 Feb 2017 |
Riau University |
Training of field protocol, and sample data handling |
Bogor-Indonesia, 2017 |
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Capacity building and knowledge tranfer with PT Rimba Makmur Utama |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2017 |
PT Rimba Makmur Utama |
Remote Sensing Applications for Wetland Inventories workshop |
Puerto Rico-US, 2017 |
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Field campaign of Ecosystem services, threats and emissions (from conversion of mangroves) |
Brazil, 2016 |
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Training of Carbon dynamics on diferrent land use and restoration in Brazilian mangroves |
Brazilian Coastline-Brazil, 2016 |
Oregon State University, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Graduate Student |
Training on Carbon Stock Assessment in Tonle Sap’s Flooded Forests |
Seam Reap-Cambodia, 24 April-7 May 2016 |
Pos-Doc Student ,USFS, MOEF, Fisheries Administration, World Conservation Society, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Royal University of Agriculture |
Study review and meta-analysis on global mangrove vulnerability to sea level rise |
Indonesia, 2016 |
University of Singapore, Oregon State university |
Katingan Restoration Project |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2016 |
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Establishment Maputo Bay Mangrove Research and Training Forest |
Maputo Bay-Mozambique, 2016 |
Eduardo Mondlane University, USFS |
Designing Rufiji Mangrove and Training Forest |
Rufiji River Delta-Tanzania, 2016 |
PhD Stundent, USFS |
Workshop mangrove carbon stock inventory procedures |
Tanzania, Feb 2016 |
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Training workshop on Soil respiration (greenhouse gases) and plant productivity measurements in tropical alpine ecosystems |
Colombia, 2015 |
Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) |
Geophysical peatlands dynamic and peat fire emissions workshop training |
Indonesia, 2015 |
University of Palangkaraya |
Assesing the effectiveness of outplanting at restoring the ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests |
Quezon-Philiphine, 2015 |
Government’s Environmental Research and Development Bureau, Forest Service |
Training course on field sampling protocol and measuring Mangrove carbon stock |
Koh Kong, Srae Ambel and Sihanoukville – Cambodia, 2015 |
USFS and LEAD RDMA |
Training on GHG fluxes, peat hydrology, NPP field measurement and spatial analysis |
Katingan- Indonesia, May and August 2015 |
CIFOR, PT. RMU and four students |
Training on how to install rSET in mangroves |
Philippines, 2015 |
USFS, Philippine government’s Environment Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) |
Training on GHG fluxes measurement in peatland |
Colombia, 2015 |
USFS, Universidad Nacional De Colombia, Michigan Tech |
Training on the development of allometric equations |
Cambodia, 2015 |
USFS, RDMA, one professor and several students from the Royal University of Agriculture |
Field training on installation of R-SET |
Banten-Indonesia, 2015 |
CIFOR, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fishery, PhD Student |
Training on GHG measurement methodologies and preliminary data collecting |
Peru, 2015 |
Huascarán National Park, Mountain Institute, MTU, USFS, staff from SilvaCarbon |
SWAMP workshop on expert review of measurement protocol in mangrove |
Mexico, 2015 |
USFS, Mexican mangrove expert |
Training workshop for Colombian scientist, park officials, and land managers on soil respiration and plant productivity measurements in tropical alpine ecosystems |
Bogota-Colombia, October 19-22, 2015 |
The Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) |
Mangrove cover change analysis-Zambezi River Delta, Project Close-Out Workshop |
Maputo-Mozambique, 2015 |
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Soil Sampling in Mangroves Workshop |
Yucatan-Mexico, June 2015 |
CONAFOR |
Soil Sampling Course |
Pelleston-MI, 2015 |
Univ. Michigan Biological, FS-IP |
Quelimane Hydrologic Monitoring Workshop Project Implementation |
November, 2015 |
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Tanakeke mangrove carbon stocks assessment |
Makassar-Indonesia, |
Charles Darwin University, Hasanuddin University, Blue Forest, Indonesian REDD+ agency and local community |
Training on mangrove carbon stock assessment |
Marromeu, Mozambique, September 2013 |
Univ. Eduardo Mondlane |
SWAMP training workshop, India |
Odisha, India, May 2013, Gupti, India, May 2013 |
Science Foundation for Tribal and Rural Resource Development (SFTRRD), Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT), Bhitarkanika Mangrove Forest and Wildlife Sanctuary |
SWAMP/USAID–RDMA training workshop |
Thailand, April – May 2013 |
USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia's (RDMA) Low Emissions Asian Development (LEAD) |
SWAMP/SilvaCarbon program training workshop |
Lima, Peru, February 2013 |
US Forest Service, CIFOR, Oregon State University, Michigan Technological University, University of Maryland, US Department of State, SilvaCarbon |
SWAMP/USAID–IFACS training workshop |
Indonesia, January-April 2013 |
USAID–Indonesia Forest and Climate Support (IFACS) program |
Mangrove flux tower training, Florida, USA |
Mexico, January 2013 |
Mexican institutions |
Development of permanent sampling plots, and plans to establish an eddy flux tower in protected area |
Mexico, November 2012 |
CINVESTAV, several Mexican institutions |
Explore future SWAMP research sites in wetland ecosystems in the western Amazon |
Peru, November 2012 |
IIAP |
A regional workshop entitled "West Indian Ocean – Mangrove Carbon Assessment" |
Maputo-Mozambique, October 2012 |
WWF-Mozambique, Univ. of Eduardo Mondlane, and the Min. of Agric. |
El Potencial del Carbono Azul y la Conservación de Manglares en la República Dominicana. |
Santo Domingo-Dominican Republic, September 2012 |
Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo |
International symposium on wildfire and carbon management in peat-forests in Indonesia |
Bogor-Indonesia, September 2012 |
Japan Sci. and Technological Agency/JICA |
Better REDD than dead: how climate change mitigation of mangroves can save biological diversity though reduced deforestation and degradation |
Washington DC-USA, July 2012 |
Counterpoint International |
Reorientation policies of coastal and seas thematic geospatial information workshop |
Semarang-Indonesia, July 2012 |
Geospatial Information Agency |
International wetland congress: Exceptionally high carbon stocks of mangroves and their potential conservation through global carbon markets |
Orlando-USA, June 2012 |
International Ecological Society |
International Wetland Congress: Tropical peatlands of Southeast Asia: Functions, threats and the role of fire in climate change mitigation |
Orlando Florida-USA, June 2012 |
International Ecological Society |
Regional workshop of forest carbon assessment and monitoring in Pacific countries. |
Nadi-Fiji, June 2012 |
Secr. Pacific Community (SPC), GIZ, JICA |
Training workshop on field sampling protocol for C-stocks assessment in tropical wetlands ecosystems |
Can Gio-Vietnam, June 2012 |
CIFOR, USFS, Nong Lam University |
14th International Peat Congress |
Stockholm-Sweden, June 2012 |
Intl. Peat Society |
Technical and scientific aspects of sources, sinks and reservoirs of all GHGs for coastal and marine ecosystems |
Bonn-Germany, May 2012 |
UNFCCC/SBSTA |
Training on methods of measuring C-stocks in Costa Rica |
Costa Rica, March 2012 |
15 students and National Park staff, NGOs |
GHG Emissions
| Activities | Venue and Date |
Partners and Organizer |
Field campaign at Katingan restoration project investigating the impact of rewetting peat swamp forest on biomass productivity and CO2 fluxes |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2017 |
Graduate Student, PhD Student |
Assesing Carbon Fluxes in the Peruvian Páramo |
Peruvian Paramo-Peru, 2016 |
PhD Student, MTU, USFS, MI Peru |
Assesing Carbon Emissions and Pore Water Chemistry in the Peat Swamp Forests of the Peruvian Amazon |
Peruvian Amazon-Peru, 2016 |
Graduate, USFS, MTU |
Monitoring Productivity and mortality rates of fine roots by sequential coring and using the decision matrix method |
Peru, 2016 |
Bachelor Student, PhD Student, UNAP, WUR |
Comparing greenhouse gas emissions among different types of mangroves/land use |
Indonesia, 2016 |
Haluoleo University, USFS |
Soil fluxes, litter productivity and water level in tropical peatlands |
Katingan Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2016 |
Master Student, IPB |
Measurement of carbon fluxes in the Colombian páramo |
Coloumbia, 2016 |
USFS, Universidad Nacional De Colombia |
Assesing Carbon Fluxes in the Ecuadorian Páramo |
Páramo-Ecuador, 2015 |
Graduate Student, MTU, USFQ, USFS |
GHG emission measurement (intact forest and oil palm) and DOC for carbon dynamic research |
Tanjung Puting-Indonesia, 2015 |
CIFOR, PhD and MSc Students |
GHG emission measurement (intact and degraded peatlands) in the Equadorian Andes |
Equador, 2015 |
USFS, Michigan Tech, Ecuadorian student |
Installation of eddy covariance tower site |
Peruvinian Amazon near Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, 2015 |
IIAP, USFS, SIlvacarbon, Michigan Tech, University of Minnesota |
Setting up new sites for carbon fluxes measurement |
Peruvian páramo |
Huascarán National Park, Mountain Institute, MTU, USFS |
GHG Emission sampling measurement field work |
Katingan-Indonesia, August 2014 |
CIFOR, PT RMU |
Land-use change (natural peat swamp forest, oil palm) and GHG emissions |
Tanjung Puting-Indonesia, June 2012-present |
PhD and MSc students, NGOs, and National Park |
Carbon stocks assessment
| Activities | Venue and Date |
Partners and Organizer |
Rufiji Delta Mangrove cover and condition assessment |
Tanzania, 2019 |
WWF Germany, USFS |
Katingan Restoration Project: Carbon Stock Assesment |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2019 |
PhD Student, PT RMU |
Changes in mangrove carbon stocks in developing, established and disturbed mangrove stands |
Rufiji Delta-Tanzania, 25 Sep-18 Oct 2018 |
WWF-Germany, WWF-Tanzania, Univ. of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Forestry Services, USDA-Forest Service |
Assesing carbon stock at North Coast of Central Java mangrove restoration, and sea level rise impact |
Central Java-Indonesia, 2018 |
PhD Student, Graduate Student |
Estimation of above ground biomass in palm trees in Peru using Terrestrial LiDAR and Quantitative Structure Model |
Peru, 2017 |
Graduate Student |
Remeasuring 30 SWAMP plots to determine the effectiveness of SWAMP at detecting changes in C stocks |
Palau-Micronesian, 2017 |
Palau forestry, Coral Reef Research Foundation |
Assesing Carbon Stocks in Ecuadorian Mountain Peatlands with GPR Technology |
Ecuador, 2017 |
University of San Francisco Quito, Florida Atlantic University and Rutgers University |
Comparing carbon in restored and intact mangroves |
Asia, 2017 |
USFS, USAID, ERDB, Halu oleo University |
Carbon measurements in restored mangrove sites |
Mexico, 2017 |
CINVESTAV |
Rufiji River mangrove carbon inventory |
Tanzania, 2016 |
Univ. Dar es Salaam, Sokoine Univ. Agricultural Sciences, Tanzania Forestry Services agency, USAID-Africa, NASA Bureau |
Assessing Carbon Stocks, sedimentation, Source of sedimen |
West Papua, 2016 |
PhD Student, Charles Darwin University, NUS |
Assesing Impacts of Land Use on Carbons Stocks, Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, and Sedimentation Rates in Mangroves |
Southwest Sulawesi-Indonesia, 2016 |
Haluoleo University, USFS, UHM, Cornell University, |
Established mangrove C Stocks and GHG emissions permanent sample plots at Tanjung Puting |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2016 |
Graduate Student, Phd Student, IPB university, University of Virginia |
Assesing peat soil respiration and net primary productivity (NPP) at Katingan |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2016 |
Graduate Student, PhD Student |
Assesing Mangrove Carbon stock, sedimentation rates, CO2 Flux at Pulau Dua Nature Reserve |
Banten-Indonesia, 2016 |
PhD Student, IPB University, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fishery |
Quantification of Mangrove Carbon Stocks using High Resolution Remote Sensing in Pongara and Akanda National Parks |
Gabon, 2016 |
USFS, NASA |
Assessing Carbon Stocks in the Vegetated Wetlands of Tonle Sap |
Tonle Sap-Cambodia, 25 April-8 May 2016 |
USFS Forest Inventory, Analysis National Program (USFS-FIA) |
Assesing Carbon Stocks and Emissions in due to conversion to shrimp pond |
Northeast Brazil-Brazil, 2016 |
Oregon State University |
GEF/Blue Forest-Identification of field sites for research student |
Banten- Indonesia, 2015 |
GEF, UNEP, CIFOR, Ministry of Fishery and Marine Affairs, PhD student |
Sample collecting and developing an allometric equation for non-tree vegetation in the flooded forest |
Tonse Sap, Cambodia, 2015 |
USFS, USAID |
Setting up three permanent plots representing high, medium and low canopy density of peat swamp forest |
Katingan- Indonesia, 2015 |
CIFOR, PT. RMU, PhD Student |
Land use and carbon stock assessment |
Peru |
University of Wageningen, CIFOR and OSU |
Tanakeke mangrove carbon stocks assessment |
Makassar-Indonesia, 1 – 9 December 2014 |
Charles Darwin University, Hasanuddin University, CIFOR, Blue Forest |
Field sampling on mangrove ecosystem in Zambezi Delta |
Marromeu, Mozambique, September 2013 |
Univ. Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) |
Field sampling in pristine and degraded mangroves |
Gupti, India, May 2013 |
32 people, including 19 trainees who are working in the field and members of the Carbon Financing Project run by OUAT/ICRAF and local forestry officials |
Measurement campaign in mangroves ecosystem |
Trang, Thailand, April – May 2013 |
Government forestry officials, NGOs and private sector organizations from Southeast Asian countries |
Field sampling on belowground mangrove carbon allocation |
Kubu Raya, Indonesia. January-March 2013 |
FORDA, Indonesian Ministry of Forestry |
Field sampling in tall, medium and dwarf mangroves |
Dominican Republic, September 2012 |
15 students and park officials |
Measurement campaign in mangroves ecosystem |
Can Gio and Ca Mau Province-Vietnam, June 2012 |
30 officials from the Forestry Department |
Measurement in tall mangroves and abandoned shrimp ponds |
Costa Rica, March 2012 |
15 students and sta National Park staff, NGOs |
Sampling in riverine, estuarine, marine mangroves in Indonesia |
All areas Indonesia, 2011-2012 |
30 people from universities, government agencies and NGOs |
C-dynamics modeling and mapping
| Activities | Venue and Date |
Partners and Organizer |
Mangrove Mapping in the Rufiji Delta |
Tanzania, 2020 |
USFS, USDM |
National-scale mapping of peatlands in the Andes and Amazon of Peru |
Peru, 2020 |
IIAP, INAIGEM, MINAM |
Mapping palm swamp peatlands and their degradation status in the Peruvian Amazon |
Peru, 2020 |
Temple University GUS - Department of Geography and Urban Studies, |
National-scale mapping of mountain peatlands in Ecuador |
Ecuador, 2020 |
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Causes of forest degradation in Vietnam mangroves |
Vietnam, 2020 |
"USFS and the Mangrove Ecosystem Research Center (MERC)" |
Synthesis on Peruvian peatlands |
Peru, 2020 |
More than 20 co-authors |
Testing macroecological patterns and drivers of mangrove forest structure and carbon stocks across biogeographic regions and coastal morphologies |
Global, 2020 |
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Measuring long-term mangrove resilience after extreme events in the Caribbean: measuring 2015 and 2019 mangrove die-back in Panama and ground validation of mangrove resilience after hurricanes (1990-2017) |
Caribbean, 2020 |
NASA, Universities of Maryland and North Carolina |
West Papua Project: Surface elevation change monitoring, carbon stocks, CO2 and CH4 effluxes assessments |
West Papua-Indonesia, 2019 |
PhD Student, Charles Darwin University, University of Malaya |
Mangrove assessment with local community |
Vietnam, 2019 |
MERC |
Impacts of palm swamp peatlands degradation on peat C stocks and GHG dynamics |
Peru, April 2014 - July 2018 |
PhD Student, WUR |
Maps of peatland soil degradation status |
Peru, Indonesia, Boswana, 2018 |
Peatland Restoration Agency |
Assesing impact of land use on carbon , greenhouse gas fluxes, and sedimentation rates in mangroves of PNG |
Gulf-Papua New Guinea, 2018 |
Graduate Student, USFS |
Expanded mapping of mountain peatlands in Ecuador |
Ecuador, 2018 |
Universidad de San Francisco de Quito |
Setting up a permanent sampling plot for assessing the impacts of peatland re-wetting on GHG emissions |
Riau-Indonesia, 13-16 February 2017 |
Riau University |
Measurement of carbon fluxes in the Peruvian peat swamp forests |
Peru, 2017 |
IIAP, USFS, Silvacarbon, MTU, University of Minnesota |
Andes high altitude wetland map ground validation |
Peru, 2017 |
MTU, Michigan Tech Research Institute, USFS, UT Austin, Mountain Institute Peru |
Maping ex-ante ex-post mangrove resilience to hurricane events in Mesoamerica and Tropical South America |
Caribbean, 2017 |
University of North Carolina, NASA, CATIE |
Mangrove carbon cycle model building |
Mozambique-Africa, 2016 |
USFS |
Mapping High Altitude Wetlands in the Andes of Peru |
Peruvia Amazon-Peru, 2016 |
MTU, Michigan Tech Research Institute, USFS, UT Austin, MI Peru |
Assesing the vulnerability of mangroves to sea level rise on the island of Pohnpei |
Pohnpei-Micronesia, Nov 2016 |
USFWS, USGS, Micronesian Trust, Conservation society of pohnpei |
Monitoring West Papua Mangroves Vulnerability |
West Papua-Indonesia, 2016 |
PhD Student, Charles Darwin University, Gottingen University |
Mangrove sediments stable isotopes analysis |
West Papua-Indonesia, 2016 |
Charles Darwin University, Gottingen University |
Assesing Peat subsidence, GHG fluxes, NPP and water level in Bengkalis tropical peatlands |
North Sumatera-Indonesia, 2017 |
Graduate Student, PhD Student |
Assesing sub surface subsidence with RSET at Sebangau National Park |
Central Kalimantan-Indonesia, 2016 |
Graduate Student, PhD Student |
Mapping High Altitude Wetlands in the Páramo of Ecuador |
Páramo-Ecuador, 2016 |
MTU, Michigan Tech Research Institute, USFS, USFQ |
Monitoring sediment surface elevation change, carbon burial, and carbon stocks across a chrono sequence of restored mangroves in the Philippines |
Philippines, 2015 |
Environmental Research and Development Bureau, USFS |
Installing 12 rSETS in Mangroves (intact Pabligao mangrove and 5, 10, 25 years old Catanauan mangrove plantation) |
Quezon- Philippines, 2015 |
USFS, ERDB |
South East Asia RSET-MH Netwoks Campaign |
Bintuni-Indonesia, May 2014 |
NUS, CIFOR, UNIPA, PT BUMWI |
Modelling on Holocene Peat Model (HPM) accomulation in the tropics |
Tanjung Puting and Berbak, Indonesia, June 2012-present |
MSc students, NGOs, and National Parks |
MODIS-based global tropical wetlands mapping |
Global, 2012 |
Universities, government officials, development agencies, consultants |
Outreach
| Activities | Venue and Date |
Partners and Organizer |
Enhancing Greater Amanzule Wetland (GAW) Conservation through Mangrove Ecosystem Monitoring and Management Planning |
Ghana, 2020 |
Community conservation committees |
Task force on Latin American wetlands for the 20x20 initiative |
Latin America, 2020 |
Wetlands International, Bioversity-CIAT, Helvetas, Saint Andrew University, von Humboldt institute, and World Resources Institute (WRI) |
Peatland policy review, roster of experts, threats analysis |
Congo Basin, 2020 |
National Peatland Coordinator, local NGO, Council for the Defense of the Environment through Legality and Traceability (CODELT) |
Launchpad Session at Global Landscape forum: Forest Tree and Agroforestry |
Bonn-Germany, 22-26 June 2019 |
CIFOR, ICRAF, WUR |
G20 Meeting |
Global, 2019 |
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Session at IUFRO world congress 2019 |
Brazil, 29 Sept – 5 Oct 2019 |
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United Nations Climate Change Conference Conference of the Parties (COP25) Side Events |
Madrid, 4-8 December 2019 |
ICRAF |
Greater Amanzule Wetland |
Ghana, 2019 |
USFS, NGO partner |
Monitoring the effectiveness of community-based mangrove management |
Vietnam, 2018 |
Mangrove Ecosystem Research Center, University of Malaya, USFS, CIFOR |
SWAMP Database |
Global, 2018 |
USFS |
International Tropical Peatland Center |
Global, 2018 |
Government of Indonesia, UNE, FAO, UNDP |
Regional guide on mangrove restoration and sustainable management |
Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya, Madagascar, 2017 |
Univ. Dar es Salaam, Univ. Eduardo Mondlane, Univ. Eduardo Mondlane, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute-KMFR |
Mangrove tenure and Governance Survey |
Kwale Distric, 2017 |
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute |
Media Training and field work to understand actual issues and scientific perspective about peatlands matter |
Riau-Indonesia, 15-16 May 2017 |
Jurnalist from national and International Media |
Workshop on wetland restoration in Páramo ecosystems |
Ecuador, 8-10 May 2017 |
MTU, USFQ, USFQ, The foundation for the protection of water, Jocotoco Foundation |
MITI Special Issue |
Global, 2017 |
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Workshop of A Management Tool to Guide Ecological Adaptation of Mangroves to Climate Change PHASE I |
Vietnam, May 2016 |
USFS, Watershed Professionals Network |
Workshop on advancing the Mapping and Monitoring of Mangrove Ecosystems |
Vietnam, 9-12 August 2016 |
Afolu working group |
Indonesian Blue Carbon Dialogue |
Marrakech-Maroko, 15 Nov 2016 |
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Vietnam National Workshop on Enhancing Wetland Management and Sustainable Development |
Online Zoom, 10 November 2020 |
CIFOR, NORAD, BMU, USAID, Nguyen Tat Thanh University |
Incentives and Disincentives for Conservation vs. Livelihoods in the Rufiji Delta |
Tanzania, Nov 2020 |
USFS, USDM, PhD Student |
Willingness to pay for Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) for mangrove environmental services in Vietnam |
Vietnam, 2020-2030 |
Nong Lam Forestry |
Courtesy call : Introducing SWAMP to Coordinating Ministry of Maritim Affairs |
Jakarta-Indonesia, 13 January 2015 |
CIFOR, Coordinating Ministry of Maritim Affairs |
E-learning SWAMP Toolbox launch |
Jakarta-Indonesia, 8 February 2015 |
CIFOR, NGOs and IFACS project |
Presentation at Workshop on Forest Carbon Emission |
Jakarta-Indonesia, 3-5 March 2015 |
Ministry of Research Technology, University of Gottingen |
Presentation in the occasion of the British Ambassador Visit to CIFOR |
Bogor-Indonesia, 13 March 2015 |
CIFOR |
Presentation on seminar at USAID Headquarter |
Washington DC, USA, 20 March 2015 |
USAID |
Presentation at Oregon State University Department of Fisheries and Wilier |
Corvallis, US |
Oregon State University |
Presentation at invited seminar for the National Estuarine Research Reserve |
South Slough Oregon- USA, 19 March 2015 |
National Estuarine Research Reserve |
Presentation at POLinSAR 2015 – 1st BIOMASS Science Workshop |
Frascaty, Italy, 27-30 January 2015 |
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Media Training on the relevance of coastal carbon and climate change adaptation and mitigation |
Banten-Indonesia, 2015 |
CIFOR, MMAF, SWAMP PhD student, representatives from local, national and international media outlets |
Discussion : Monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of a mangrove restoration project |
Quelimane, Mozambique, 2015 |
USFS, USAID |
E-learning IPN Toolbox launch |
Bogor-Indonesia, 2015 |
CIFOR, Ministry of Environment and Forestry |
Presentation on meeting with the University of Pennsylvania |
Lima, Peru, 15 May 2015 |
CIFOR, University of Pennsylvania |
Presentation at invited seminar, Scripps Institute of Oceanography |
La Jolla California, 19 May 2015 |
Scripps Institute of Oceanography |
Presentation on Ambanja Bay Workshop for determining carbon stock and emissions of Madagascar’s mangroves |
Madagascar, 17 June 2015 |
Blue Ventures |
Presentation at The Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheed |
North Charleston-US, 3-5 March 2015 |
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Presentation : Working with Private Sector on Peatlands Rehabilitation Project |
2 June 2015 |
EU- ASEAN SUSTAIN Project |
Presentation : Making REDD+ a Mitigation-based Strategy for Adaptation in Wetlands Project |
Copenhagen- Denmark, 29 June 2015 |
Denmark Technical University |
Presentation at Society of Wetland Scientist Annual Meeting : (1) Spatial variation of mangrove soil carbon and (2) Carbon stocks of intact mangroves in the Zambezi River Delta, Mozambique |
Providence, R.I, 1-4 June 2015 |
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Presentation on Translating wetland research into policy |
Bogor-Indonesia, 2015 |
USAID |
Presentation on Tropical peatland carbon dynamics simulated for scenarios of disturbance and restoration and climate change |
San Francisco- US, 2015 |
American Geophysical Union |
Presentation on Impacts of land use, restoration, and climate change on tropical peat carbon stocks in the 21st century : Implications for climate mitigation at C-PEAT meeting |
New York- US, 2015 |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
Presentation on Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical mountain peatlands of South America at C-PEAT meeting |
New York- US, 2015 |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
Presentation at West Indian Ocean Marine Science Association 9th Scientific Symposium : (1) Carbon stock of intact mangroves in the Zambezi River Delta, Mozambique (2) A regional for mangrove research and training forests |
Providence- Rhode Island, 2015 |
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Presentation on Translating wetland research into policy |
Bogor-Indonesia, 2015 |
USAID |
Presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Conference |
San Francisco, CA |
American Geophysical Union |
Invited Seminar at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane |
Maputo, Mozambique |
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane |
Presentation at Symposium on turning the tide on mangrove loss |
London-UK, 7 December 2014 |
Zoological Society of London |
Presentation at Indonesia Pavilion COP20 |
Lima-Peru, 1-12 December 2014 |
UNFCCC |
Presentation at Forest, Tree and Agroforestry Planning Meeting |
Rome-Italy, 25-30 November 2014 |
CGIAR CRP-FTA |
Presentation at FAO Courtesy Call |
Rome-Italy, 24 November 2014 |
FAO |
Presentation at Integration of Blue Carbon into REDD+ activities |
Jakarta-Indonesia, 20 November 2014 |
Indonesian REDD+ Agency |
Presentation at 7th International Symposium on non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases |
Amsterdam-Netherlands, 5-7 November 2014 |
NCGG-7 |
Presentation at Blue Carbon Workshop |
Rio Grande du Sol-Brazil, 19-23 October 2014 |
Conservation International, Blue Carbon Initiative |
Presentation at Society of Conservation Biology Conference |
Malaka-Malaysia, 20 August 2014 |
SCB Asia |
Presentation on 7th International Conference on Asian and the Pacific Coast |
Bali 24-26 September 2013 |
Hasanuddin University |
Presentation on Symposium on Coastal cities, marine resources, and climate change in the coral triangle: sustainability and climate change |
Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2013 |
Research Center for Climate Change-University of Indonesia |
Presentation on Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) conference |
Costa Rica, June 2013 |
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) |
Presentation on International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) Global Soil Carbon Conference |
Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 3-6 June 2013 |
International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) |
Presentation at Workshop ‘Towards more sustainable land management practices for peatlands – special focus on drained areas’ |
Rome, Italy, May 2013 |
UN Food and Agriculture Organization |
Presentation on US Forest Service International Program Seminar |
Washington D.C., USA, March 2013 |
US Forest Service International Program |
Presentation on Annual Mer Bleue Peatland Carbon Science Meeting |
Montreal, Canada, March 2013 |
McGill University |
Presentation on Regional Symposium on Mangrove Ecosystem Management in Southeast Asia |
Surabaya, Indonesia, March 2013 |
Japan International Cooperation Agency |
The Kalimantan Wetlands and Climate Change Study. Public Lecture |
Samarinda, Indonesia, March 2013 |
Mulawarman University |
Presentation on International Workshop on Forestry and Local People |
Pontianak, Indonesia, March 2013 |
University of Tanjungpura |
Presentation at International Indonesia Peatland Conversations |
Bandung, Indonesia, February 2013 |
Indonesia Climate Change Center |
Presentation at Blue Carbon Workshop |
Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 2013 |
Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi and UN Development Programme |
Supplement to 2006 IPCC Guidelines |
IPCC, 2011-present |
IPCC |
Doha-Qatar, December 2012 |
UNFCCC |
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Briefings on climate change |
Santo Domingo-Dominican Republic, September 2012 |
The Ambassador and Negotiators/ Ministry officials, NGOs and University |
The COP-11 to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance |
Bucharest-Rumania, July 2012 |
Secretariat of RAMSAR Convention |
IPCC 3rd Lead Author Meeting, Wetlands Supplementary Guidance |
Dublin-Ireland, July 2012 |
IPCC |
Briefings on mangroves and climate change |
Can Gio-Vietnam, June 2012 |
Nong Lam University, Leaders of Can Gio and Ca Mau Districts |
Interview: Indonesia pushes for sustainable development in mining, palm and forestry Sectors |
Jakarta, June 2012 |
Jakarta Globe |
Jakarta-Indonesia, May 2012 |
The Wall Street Journal |
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Briefings on work to climate change delegations |
Bonn-Germany, May 2012 |
SBSTA |
Indonesia, May 2012 |
Nature |
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Interview: Vietnam's mangroves trees threatened by rising tide of deforestation |
Vietnam, April 2012 |
The Guardian |
Interview: Various aspects of mangroves in Southeast Asia for people and the environment |
Washington DC-USA, April 2012 |
National Public Radio (NPR), USA |
Media briefings: Mangroves for the Future: Challenges and opportunities for Southeast Asians |
Da Nang-Vietnam, March 2012 |
Mangroves for Future (MFF), IUCN, CIFOR |
Interview on blue carbon and SWAMP activities |
San Jose-Costa Rica, March 2012 |
Costa Rica TV Station |
Briefings on assessments of the values and losses of coastal carbon stocks at global to personal spatial scales |
Brussels-Belgium, January 2012 |
European Union Parliament |
