The Universidade de São Paulo on its city campus, a city in itself 'Cidade Universitária', is enormous. You can probably see it from the moon - well maybe not. The campus includes lots of secondary lowland rainforest, most of it fenced off from the masses as reserves. Although you can see the huge panorama of high rise condominia that is São Paulo from high points in Cidade Universitária, it's palpably calmer, quieter and greener here. Quite a pleasant place to be, once you've braved the traffic to get here.
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| Rainforest outside the Ecology building - with an Australian overstorey (Forest Red Gum Eucalyptus tereticornis)!! |
I spent yesterday here in the Ecology Department at USP, and had a great meeting with Prof Paulo Guimarães - 'miudo' or kid as he's known (and is anything but a little kid!) - talking about the application of network analysis to some of my research questions. This could lead to a very productive collaboration.
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| Ecology building, USP |
It's a friendly department, from academics and postgrads through to admin staff (reminds me of a slightly louder version of UTas in that regard). My seminar is coming up in about 90 minutes - more later ...
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| Flier for the seminário de estrangeiro! |
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