Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Category: Alumni
TCD Alumna Victoria Reyes Garcia interviewed by Marianne Schmink in Latinamericanist Newsletter
“In 1997, Victoria Reyes Garcia was living in Ecuador, working on her master’s thesis, and doing fieldwork in partnership with a newly founded U.S.-based research initiative called MERGE —Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis. This connection would lead her to MERGE’s founder, Marianne Schmink, and eventually to the University of Florida, where she studied
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Maira Irigaray is the 2021 M. Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Maíra Irigaray is the 2021 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Irigaray received her PhD in Geography in Fall 2020 under the supervision of Dr. Cynthia Simmons. The outstanding dissertation award was established in 2010 in recognition of
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TCD Faculty and alumni contributed to COP26 first-ever comprehensive report on the Amazon
Released this week at #COP26, the first-ever comprehensive report on the Amazon provides an overview of the state of the Amazon, current risks as well as recommendations for public policies and solutions to protect the Amazon and its peoples. Read more here: https://bit.ly/31OANlQ #amazonreport Congratulations to all of the TCD Faculty and alumni who contributed to
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TCD Alumna Mahi Puri wins Best Talk award at Student Conference on Conservation Science in NY
Congratulations to Mahi Puri for winning the prestigious Best Talk award at the Student Conference on Conservation Science – New York hosted by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History. The meeting was held virtually from 5-8 October, 2021. Her talk was entitled “An integrated approach to prioritize carnivore conservation in
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TCD alumna interviewed by Forbes about her work in Andean Forests and to support Ecuador’s Women In STEM
TCD and UF Biology aluman María Claudia Segovia Salcedo is “not only helping to create a seed bank of Andean mountain plants, she is also planting the seeds for a more inclusive environment for women in STEM in Ecuador”. Read Claudia’s entire forbes interview on the link below. This Scientist Helps Andean Forests And Ecuador’s
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Andrea Baudoin (SNRE/TCD) is the 2020 M. Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. C. Andrea Baudoin Farah is the 2020 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Baudoin received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology in 2019 from the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) program under the supervision of Dr. Stephen
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