Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
Category: Events
Congratulations to the 2022 Fieldwork Festival Poster Exhibit winners!
Last Friday’s Fieldwork Festival was a success! Students from LAS, TCD, and MDP presented their research projects to judges, shared project advice with the 1st year cohort, and answered questions from the public during the poster exhibit. Congratulations to all! We are really proud that many of the awarded are TCD students that received support
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TCDsg fundraising event Taste of the Tropics is back!!!
The TCD Student Group is organizing the 2022 Taste of the Tropics, a fundraiser cooking competition with great prizes that brings together family and friends to have a good time and share delicious food. The funds go directly to scholarships and other funding sources for TCD students. This year the Taste of the Tropics will
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TCD Students get together for a student only retreat to talk about the Program
On the 24th of February, the TCD Student Group organized its first retreat bringing together students and alumni to discuss the TCD Program and the role of students in shaping it. It was a rich dialogue that recognize the value of the TCD community in the experience of being a graduate student working in the
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TCD student group officers participated in a panel on “Women and Girls In Science”
Our TCD sg President and VP, Susana Ruiz Diaz and Vanessa Luna were invited as panelists in an event celebrating the Month of Women and Girls in Science. The discussion panel was hosted by UF SACNAS Chapter and was held virtually and in-person on February 28th, 2022. During the event, panelists and participants from different
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Center for Latin American Studies 2022 Conference: Community-driven strategies & action for biocultural conservation
The event will be online and consist of panels and discussions in Spanish and Portuguese and will be live-streamed on YouTube with simultaneous translation to English on Zoom. February 22 and February 241:00 pm to 4:00 pm (EST/Bogota/Quito)2:00 pm – 5:00 pm (La Paz/Manaus)3:00 – 6:00 pm (Asuncion/Brasilia) Event Agenda available HERE February 22, 2022https://ufl.zoom.us/j/91080801075?pwd=U0txRTh4bDJsWkduMzZyY2xuOWRWZz09
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TCD Faculty published article “The number of tree species on Earth” in PNAS
TCD faculty Eben Broadbent (SFRC) and Angelica Almeyda Zambrano (LAS /TCD) are among the authors of the recenter paper The number of tree species on Earth published in PNAS. “One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges and taxonomic difficulties
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