Tanguro Field Station | Research at the Frontlines of Climate Change

For twenty years, Tanguro has served as a research and education hub for Woodwell Climate Research Center and Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM Amazônia, Amazon Environmental Research Institute), as well as others. Located in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Tanguro is a field research station on a working agricultural farm at the Amazonian agricultural frontier, which has experienced some of the highest rates of deforestation and fire in past decades. It is a varied landscape with over 40 thousand hectares of croplands producing soybeans, cotton, maize, and beans, and an equal area of standing native forest-making it a model for research on the complex interplay between forests, agriculture, biodiversity, and climate.