1. Welcome to the Seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Business Meeting November 5-8, 2003 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

2. Wednesday, November 5 - AM 9:00 Introduction Flavio Luizão Antonio Manzi Diane Wickland Garik Gutman 10:30 Coffee Break (Foyer) 11:00 Carlos Nobre Peter Griffith Outline of the Meeting and Charge

3. Wednesday, November 5 - PM 12:00 Lunch (Blue Night Room) 13:30 Poster Session - All Posters 15:30 Coffee Break (Foyer) 16:00 Business Workshops LBA-ECO Transition Planning (Senatus) LBA-Air-ECO Recovery Planning(Argentea) Data Archival and Documentation (Magna) Education and Training (Aurea) 18:00 Adjourn

4. Thursday, November 6 - AM 9:00 Reports from Business Workshops 10:00 Coffee Break (Foyer) 10:30 Oral Sessions Session 1: Carbon and Nutrients in Terrestrial Ecosystems (Senatus) Session 2: Forest Degradation and Logging: Detection and Effects (Argentea) Session 3: Biogeochemistry and Aquatic Systems (Magna)

5. Thursday, November 6 - PM 13:00 Lunch (Blue Night Room) 14:30 Poster Session - All Posters 16:00 Coffee Break (Foyer) 16:30 Science Workshops A – Planning Discussions Fire: Ecosystems and the Atmosphere (Senatus) Rivers, Wetlands, and Carbon Cycling (Argentea) Secondary Forests (Magna) 18:30 Adjourn

6. Friday, November 7 – AM 9:00 Science Workshops A 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Reports on Science Workshops A (Caelius/Aventino) 12:00 Lunch (Blue Night Room)

7. 14:00 Oral Sessions – Research Results Session 4: Forest Dynamics (Senatus) Session 5: Physiology of Drought and Atmospheric Implications (Argentea) Session 6: Land Use Changes and the Future of the Amazon (Magna) 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00 Science Workshops B BARCA (Regional Carbon Balance Study) (Senatus) Intensive Agriculture (Argentea) Logging and Forest Degradation (Magna) 18:30 Adjourn Friday, November 7 – PM

8. Saturday, November 8 9:00 Science Workshops B 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Reports on Science Workshops B (Caelius/Aventino) 12:00 Closing Remarks (Caelius/Aventino) 12:30 Adjourn