Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Category: Alumni
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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TCD alumna and TCD Faculty publish article on gender and forest resources management
Dr. Ana Luiza Violato Espada (SFGSS and TCD alumna) and Dr. Karen A. Kainer recently published a study of women’s participation in seven community-based timber projects within three Brazilian Amazonian extractive reserves. The article Women and timber management: From assigned cook to strategic decision-maker of community land use is free for download until April 8,
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Mahi Puri (WEC/TCD) has been awarded the 2022 M. Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award!
The Tropical Conservation and Development program congratulates Dr. Mahi Puri for being the 2022 recipient of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award. Dr. Puri received her PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation in 2021 under the supervision of Drs. Bette Loiselle (Advisor) and Elizabeth Pienaar (Co-Advisor). The outstanding dissertation award was established in 2010 in
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GIA2 Working Group on Biocultural Conservation: Envisioning academia’s role with NGO and community partners
The UF/TCD GIA project — a learning network of UF students and faculty with conservation practitioners from NGOs, community organizations and regional universities – concluded with a call for a biocultural approach that integrates conservation of tropical forests and rivers with the well-being of Indigenous and traditional communities. We invite interested students and faculty
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Check out the new interactive map of the TCD community
We are working on building an interactive map of the worldwide TCD community. We have started to populate it with info about our current TCD students and hope by the beginning of the new year to have both Faculty and Alumni information updated as well. This map will illustrate the geographic and thematic diversity of
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TCD alumna Marcela Marquez wins the Women in Science 2022 award from L’Oreal-UNESCO
TCD has so MANY AMAZING alumni – we are so lucky to have such a distinguished community making impacts around the globe. Today we celebrate Marcela Marquez who won the Women in Science 2022 award from L’Oreal-UNESCO !!! Just a few weeks ago, Marcela joined us at UF as the awardee for the Center for
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