Tropilunch – Fall 2017 – Tropical Conservation & Development Program

Date	Name, Position & Institution	Title	Youtube
Aug 22	Bette Loiselle & Bob Buschbacher	Organizational meeting for Tropilunch and for the upcoming TCD Wokshop "Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Pathways"	Unavailable
Aug 29	Dr. Divya Vasudev WCS India & TCD / UF alumna	Rolling Stones: Dispersers in Dynamic Human Dominated Landscapes	Unavailable
Sep 5	Muhammad Ikbal Putera, S.Hut SFRC MS Student & Ecosystem Manager Komodo National Park, Indonesia	The World’s Real “Jurassic” Park: Komodo National Park, Indonesia	Link
Sep 12	Cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
Sep 19	Vanessa Hull, Assistant Professor, WEC, UF	Human-wildlife interactions in Coupled Human and Natural Systems- Lessons from China	Link
Sep 26	Marcelo Oliveira, WWF- Brazil Special Guest	Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for surveying river dolphins in the Amazon	Link
Oct 3	No Tropilunch	Tools and Strategies for Conservation and Development in the Amazon Learning day	No video
Oct 10	Carol Jordão, Robert Buschbacher, Denyse Mello, Gabriel Carrero, UF	Leadership Training in Amazonian Municipalities for Governance and Resilience	Link
Oct 17	Edwin Castellanos, Co-Director Centro de Estudios Ambientales y de Biodiversidad Universidad del Valle de Guatemala	No Need for Persuasion: The Evidence of a Changing Climate in Mesoamerica	Link
Oct 24	Daniel Roquetti, Amazon Dams Network / USP/TCD	Hydropower plants, human development & development-forced displacement and resettlement in Brazil	Link
Oct 31	Dr. Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, Associate Professor in Tropical Conservation Ecology, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus	MEME – the messy business of conserving elephants in Malaysia, a rapidly developing country	Unavailable
Nov 7	Dr. Eddie Allison, Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington *Special Guest8	Snakes, Crocodiles, and Markets: Conservation, Livelihoods, and Wildlife trade on Cambodia's Tonle Sap	Link
Nov 14	Mayra Rivas, PhD Student, SNRE	Recovery of Natural Capital of the Dry Corridor Region and Climate Adaptation (GU-M1044): Impact Evaluation	Link
Nov 21	Grace Palacios, MDP student, UF	The role of kichwa women in the implementation of the Conditional Direct Transfer (TDC) Mechanism
Nov 28	Zulema Lehm, WCS Bolivia	Economic income and livelihoods in the communitarian indigenous territory (TCO) Tacana, Bolivia	Link
Dec 5	Nicholas Dowhaniuk, PhD Student Geography & MHS Student Public Health, UF	The Conflict after the War: Conservation, War, and Post-conflict Regrowth in Northern Uganda.	Link