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Contact: Guillermo Podestá (gpodesta@rsmas.miami.edu),
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Katz, R.W. 2007. Generalized linear modeling approach to weather generators. Invited talk at University of Buenos Aires, Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, 28 November 2007.

Talk Slides (PDF, 1867 KB)


Celis A. and P. Forni. 2007. De los satélites geoestacionarios y las boyas oceánicas a los productores pampeanos: La red de generación y diseminación de información climática potencialmente útil para la actividad agropecuaria en la región pampeana. Primer Congreso Argentino de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Universidades Nacionales de Quilmes and Gral. San Martín, 5-6 July 2007, Bernal, Argentina.

See WWW site for Congreso Argentino de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología.


Hidalgo, C., C.E. Natenzon and G. Podestá. 2007. Construcción interdisciplinaria de conocimiento: el caso de un proyecto internacional sobre variabilidad climática y agricultura. Primer Congreso Argentino de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología. Universidades Nacionales de Quilmes and Gral. San Martín, 5-6 July 2007, Bernal, Argentina.

See WWW site for Congreso Argentino de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología.


Bert, F. 2007. El valor de la información climática en los cultivos de maíz y soja. Analizando el impacto de escenarios de mediano y largo plazo sobre la producción y su resultado económico. MundoAgro 2007. 26 June 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Extended abstract [in Spanish] (PDF, 268 KB)

Bert's presentation [in Spanish] (PDF, 1.14 MB)

Summary of Bert's presentation [in Spanish] (PDF, 440 KB)

See WWW site for MundoAgro 2007


Olson, D.B. 2007. Harvesting in the face of climate fluctuations. Undergraduate Summer Interns Seminar. University of Miami Rosenstiel School, 1 June 2007.

Talk Slides (PDF, 4.0 MB)


Bert, F. 2007. Evaluación y predicción de la variabilidad interanual: sus posibilidades de aplicación y valor en la toma de decisiones en la agricultura pampeana. FUNDACREA, Programa de Capacitación para Asesores 2007. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 29 May 2007.

Talk Slides [in Spanish] (PDF, 2.6 MB)


Podestá, G.P. 2007. Overview of agricultural production systems in the La Plata Basin. La Plata Basin Workshop. Organized by CLIVAR and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28-31 March 2007.


Ferraro, D.O. 2006. Sustentabilidad ambiental de la producción de biocombustibles [Environmental sustainability of biofuel production]. Simposio Internacional de Bioenergía. Facultad de Agronomía, Univ. of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, 1 December 2006.

See WWW site for Bioenergy Symposium


Ferraro, D.O. 2006. El desafío de evaluar la sustentabilidad agrícola. [The challenge of estimating agricultural sustainability]. Taller sobre sustentabilidad de la producción agrícola. Asociación Argentina de Protección Vegetal y Ambiental (ASAPROVE). Buenos Aires, 16 November 2006.


Celis, A. 2006. Comunicación de información climática útil para la actividad agroproductiva en Argentina. IV Encuentro RUPSUR: Variabilidad climática y cambio climático, impacto en los logros del milenio. 8-10 November 2006. Cali, Colombia.

Talk Slides [in Spanish] (PowerPoint, 642 KB)


Ferraro, D.O. and L. Gutiérrez Castex. Diseño de sistemas agrícolas sustentables: Implicancias ecológicas y ambientales de la producción de biocombustibles en los agroecosistemas pampeanos. [Design of sustainable agricultural systems: ecological and environmental implications of biofuel production in agroecosystems in the Pampas]. IFEVA Seminar, School of Agronomy, Univ. Of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, 27 October 2006.


Ferraro, D.O. 2006. Introducción a la estimación de impactos ambientales en agroecosistemas [An introduction to the estimation of environmental impacts on agroecosystems]. Taller de Introducción a la Estimación de Impactos Ambientales en Agroecosistemas (INTA – Balcarce). Mar del Plata, 5-9 October 2006.

Talk Slides [in Spanish] (PDF, 2.7 MB)


Laciana, C. and F. Bert. 2006. Modeling adaptive management in agroecosystems in the Pampas in response to climate variability and other risk factors. Invited talk at Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), 3 October 2006.

Talk Slides (PowerPoint, 1480 KB)


Weber, E.U. 2006. The Psychology of Decision making Under Climate Uncertainty. Invited address, "Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the Risks". Organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Espoo, Finland, 17-21 July 2006.

Talk Slides (PDF, 112 KB) | "Living with Climate" Conference WWW site


Ferraro, D.O. El uso de la energía como condición necesaria para diseñar sistemas agrícolas sustentables [Energy use as a necessary condition for the design of sustainable agricultural systems]. Instituto de Suelos -  Centro de Investigación de Recursos Naturales (INTA). Castelar, 7 July 2006.


Natenzon, C. 2006. Interdisciplinary research and participation: Reflections on a project about Biocomplexity. Seminario “Cultura y Sociedad,” organized by Centro Cultural Parque de España, REDES, the University of Rosario, the Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, and the Organization of Ibero-American States. Rosario, Argentna, 3 July 2006.


Celis, A. 2006. Transferencia de información climática vinculada a la actividad agropecuaria en la región pampeana: un estudio comparativo entre actores institucionales. Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. 5 May 2006.


Weber, E., G. Bernaudo, F. Bert, K. Broad, G. Caputo, A. Celis, W. Easterling, H. Herzer, C. Hidalgo, R. Katz, C. Laciana, D. Letson, A. Menéndez, C. Natenzon, L. Núñez, S. Núñez, D. Olson, R. Pulwarty, G. Podestá, B. Rajagopalan, M. Re, F. Ruiz Toranzo,  E. Satorre, M. Skansi, and C. Villanueva. 2006. Different Objectives of Agricultural Decisions in the Argentine Pampas: Do Farmers Maximize Expected Utility, Regret-Adjusted Expected Utility, or the Prospect Theory Value Function? University College London, London Judgement and Decision Making Seminar, 31 May 2006.
Katz, R.W. 2006. Sir Gilbert Walker and a connection between El Niño and statistics. Invited lecture at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8 March 2006.

ABSTRACT. The eponym "Walker Circulation" refers to a concept used by atmospheric scientists and oceanographers in providing a physical explanation for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. The eponym "Yule–Walker equations" refers to properties satisfied by the autocorrelations of an autoregressive process, equations commonly used today, for instance, in speech compression. But how many statisticians (or, for that matter, atmospheric scientists) are aware that the "Walker" in both terms refers to the same individual, Sir Gilbert Walker, and that these two appellations arose in conjunction with the same research on the statistical prediction of climate?

Talk Slides (PDF, 502 KB)


Weber, E.U. 2005. Agricultural decision-making under (climate) uncertainty.
Invited presentation at Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (AACREA) Headquarters, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 29 November 2005.

Talk Slides (PowerPoint, 161 KB)


Letson, D., G. Podestá, C. Messina and A. Ferreyra. 2005. The Uncertain Value of Perfect ENSO Phase Forecasts: Stochastic Agricultural Prices and Intra-Phase Climatic Variations. Southern Extension Research Activity (SERA-30) meeting, May 19-20 2005, Tallahassee, Florida.

Also presented at...

Management Science and Operations Management (MSOM) Seminar, a monthly seminar promoted by two departments at the School of Business Administration of the University of Miami, Management Science (MS) and Operations Management (OM), April 20, 2005.

Talk Slides (PDF, 784 KB)


Podestá, G.P. 2005. Building capacity to provide useful climate information: Lessons/insights from agricultural decision-making in Argentina.
Invited presentation at NOAA’s Office of Global Programs Headquarters. Washington, D.C., April 12, 2005.

Abstract (PDF, 20 KB) | Talk Slides (PowerPoint, 2785 KB)


Project participants. 2005. Understanding and Modeling the Scope for Adaptive Management in Agroecosystems in the Pampas in Response to Interannual and Decadal Climate Variability and Other Risk Factors.
Poster presented at “Understanding and Harnessing Complexity in the Environment”, 2005 Meeting of the Biocomplexity in the Environment Awardees, US National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, March 21-23, 2005.

Poster (PDF, 1416 KB)


Podestá, G.P. 2004. Utilización de información climática  para apoyar la toma de decisiones en agricultura. 
Invited lecture at “Jornadas tecnológicas 2001”, Asociación Argentina de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (AACREA), Mar del Plata, Argentina, August 31 and September 1st, 2004.

Talk Slides (Power Point, 2207 KB)