Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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Emily Pappo is the 2023 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Emily Pappo is the 2023 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Pappo received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology in Spring 2023 from School of Natural Resources and Environment under the supervision of Dr. S. Luke Flory (Chair) and
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“Biocultural Conservation in Higher Education” Report just released!
We are thrilled to make public a report on “Biocultural Conservation in Higher Education: Organizational Review and Consultation” that was done by TCD consultant Dr. Francisca Saavedra. Over the years TCD has taken community-based conservation approaches that are characterized by partnerships with professionals, practitioners, and forest communities throughout the tropics. Emerging from these experiences have
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Small TCD world …
You don’t really expect to meet UF students, let alone TCD alumni in the Rupununi region of Guyana, one of the most sparsely populated areas on earth, but this is just what happened today! Sarina Kawall (MDP/TCD) was in the Rupununi, returning research results to communities’ courtesy of a TCD Practitioner Grant, when she ran
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UFIC highlights TCD new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia
Thanks to UF’s International Center for their highlight of our new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia. The project builds on a transdisciplinary research and mentor program that began with the Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project ( see https://giamazon.org ). Working with professors from UF, UAP,
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Thanks to faculty that served on TCD selection committees!
As we begin the Fall 2023 semester, we want to shout out and give thanks to all of the incredible people that served on TCD Selection Committees in 2022-2023. Our TCD community cannot function without you and the reviews and guidance you provide to TCD students from across campus are invaluable. THANK YOU!! TCD Reviewers
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TCD Students among winners of Fieldwork Festival
Congratulations to the TCD students that have received an award at the Center for LAS Fieldwork Festival on March 10th. It was great to see all the posters from the LAS and TCD FRG awardees from the previous years. We can’t wait to see what you will have to share next spring from your 2023
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