Tropilunch – Fall 2018

DateName, Position & InstitutionTitleYoutube
Aug 28Moses Nyago, MS student, SFRCCorporate Social Responsibility and Investment in REDD+ Conservation in UgandaUnavailable
Sep 04Leandra Merz, PhD student, GeographyAttitudes toward wildlife in MozambiqueLink
Sep 11Ryan Thomson, PhD candidate SociologyWe gonna be right here: Gates and Fakes invade the Gullah/Geechee Sea IslandsLink
Sep 18Dr. Kaoru Kitajima, Kyoto UniversityTropical forest conservation and development in Asia: Who is doing what to keep up with a rapidly changing worldLink
Sep 25Leonardo Resende, Pontificia Universidade Católica (PUC) do Rio de Janeiro Environmental, social and economic recovery through silvopastoral systems: study cases at Brazilian cattle farmsLink
Oct 02Dr. Simone Athayde & others, TCD Juridical and Technological Tools for Territorial Management of Indigenous and Traditional People’s Lands in the AmazonLink
Oct 09Water Institute Graduate Fellows 2017 Cohort & UF Law Costa Rica Program Interdisciplinary research collaboration and stakeholder engagement in the management of the Tampique River watershedLink
Oct 16Dr. Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems The vital role of livestock in meeting global education, nutrition, economic and sustainability needsLink
Oct 23Dr. Thaissa Sobreiro, SNRE/TCD Alumna & Instituto Socioambiental, Brazil2017 Schmink Dissertation Award presentation: Indigenous mobilization and multi-local livelihood in the middle Rio Negro, Brazilian AmazonLink
Oct 30Carol Jordão and Wendy-Lin Bartles, TCD Gender integration, monitoring and capacity building for sustainable value chains in the amazon: Lessosn learned in from a local NGO project in Mato Grosso, BrazilLink
Nov 06Farah Carrasco, PhD candidate, SNRE Land use change and bat biodiversityLink
Nov 13Myrian Barboza, PhD. Candidate, Anthropology program at UF & Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology at UFPA (Brazil)2017 Schmink Innovation Award presentation: “Basket of knowledge”: Weaving networks, connecting multiple ways of knowing and technologies through the creation and use of alternative didactic kits in indigenous pedagogy in Amazonas, BrazilLink
Nov 20Ana Carolina Fiorini, PhD student Biology Brazilian forest code instruments used to promote Atlantic Forest restorationLink
Nov 27Dr. Megan Raby, Department of History, UT Austin The colonial history of tropical field stations and the roots of biodiversity scienceLink
Dec 04Dr. Joel Correia, TCD & LAS Frontiers of environmental justice: Human rights, environmental change, and indigenous struggles in South America’s Chaco regionLink