BELÉM, Brazil—A workshop hosted by the University of Michigan and the Federal University of Pará in Brazil is preparing early career researchers to tackle some of the Amazon Rainforest’s most pressing challenges. “This collaboration will involve interchange between the two institutions involving education, research, outreach and communication to advance science and public policy for people and nature in the Amazon,” said Peter Reich, a professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability, or SEAS. Holding this training in the heart of the Amazon brings science closer to the region’s real problems and expands the participation of researchers who intimately know its landscapes, institutions and challenges.