Jay Bancroft gave a talk summarizing his experiences on an Amazon expedition with university students. The objectives of the trip were to teach students about the culture and biology of the Amazon region. Some of the highlights discussed included the biodiversity of the Amazon with over 3000 fish species and 800 mammal species, daily life on the expedition such as shopping in Manaus and navigating the river, and the culture and history of the region including the rubber boom of the late 1800s. Conservation challenges facing the Amazon like deforestation from agriculture and mining were also mentioned.

1. Amazon Expedition:science, adventure and conservation Jay Bancroft 8 Dec 2010 University of Delaware Entomology and Wildlife Ecology Seminar

2. AcknowledgementWildernessclassroom.comhttp://www.wildernessclassroom.com/amazon/2008/10/our_home_away_from_home.htmland its sponsors Fellow expedition adventurers : Dave FreemanAmy VoytellaEric Frost TonicoOsse Anne DeCock

3. Objective for trip, teach kids about culture and biology of Amazonia Objective for this talk, give you highlights of our experiences with ecology and conservation spun into our cultural adventure

4. Conceptual categories3 very interrelated Biology – biodiversity, ecosystems, bio-prospecting Development Agriculture - timber, farms and ranches Energy & mining Culture – indian, Portuguese

5. Outline Sustainability River & Rainforest Daily Life Organisms & Biodiversity Culture

6. Brazil=8,511,965 sq km vs. USA= 9,826,675 sq km

7. Warming and Carbon

8. Losing biodiversity, indians, My guess is unrestrained growth will decimate ecology and freshwater system, eventually. Technology may improve low damn efficiency (still hydrologic impairment).

9. Amazon basin =5.4 million square kilometers Bore http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=16195 River: 5x vol of next largest 5 rivers, 11x Miss, 50000 mi navigable, 30’ wet rise on 100”/yr, 200m deep at Obidos - 2km wide

10. River I was hoping for

12. Expedition Life http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/amazon/2008/10/shopping_in_manaus.html

31. Bats,,,fires

33. Storm & barge

36. Sickness Night canoeing with tide

40. Life vests on Morning after

45. No crossing now

50. Diesel

51. Sunset dishes with shrimp-pot stakes

53. Piranha mud or cows with hideous flies

55. Trails to farinia fields often went by scary hummocks

58. Biodiversity 3000 sp fish 10x Miss. most characins and catfish, 800 sp mammals, 2000 sp birds

64. Atta

65. Eciton

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74. http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/amazon/2008/10/amazon_honey.html

76. Termite nests abound http://www.wildernessclassroom.com/amazon/2008/10/termite_tunnels_of_the_rain_fo.html

85. Wandering .006mg kills mouse, 7 peptides+priapism, .3mg LD50 v. 5.5mg for black widow Not Jays

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112. Not Jays but I saw lots

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152. Imagine this sound on a walk

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197. History &Culture Manaus – 1669, rubber boom town, now flat screens Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes,

213. Wallace: lived richly, provided key support for evolution 1852 Monkeys of the Amazon – 3 river barrier subspecies, boat from Belem sank Humbolt, Bates, Goeldi, Lyell, Darwin, to Wegener’s continental drift

215. Mandatory voting

216. Water savvy

243. Besse and Botos

246. Missed crash and election