Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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Amazonian Dialogues – a new remote speaker series starts on 1/22/25 on the topic of gender and youth integration, community forestry and Indigenous territorial governance in Bolivia.
Dear TCD Community, We’re thrilled to invite you to “Amazonian Dialogues,” a new remote speaker series that’s part of TCD’s exciting new project on Amazonian Conservation. This semester, we’re hosting engaging presentations by invited speakers every other Wednesday, and these sessions are open to the entire TCD community. Our first session kicks off this Wednesday,
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TCDsg 2024 Bingo fundraising is this Saturday!
fundraising The BINGO is one of the TCD student group fundraising events that happens every year to support TCD students’ small grants or other initiatives. Please Join us this Saturday, December 7 to be part of this traditional and unforgettable evening of excitement, camaraderie, and the thrill of the win at Bingo Games! More info
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UF SACNAS receives Outstanding Chapter Award for Innovative Science
The SACNAS (Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) chapter at the University of Florida received the Outstanding Chapter Award for Innovative Science. Claudia Garnica (PhD Biology and TCD) received the award and shared with the audience that “This recognition celebrates a belief we hold dear: that science is not just for a few but
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FLMNH Faculty and TCD affiliate receives X-Prize for work on improvement of Biodiversity surveys
So excited to share the news from Florida Museum of Natural History where Dr. Rob Guralnick (FLMNH curator) was part of a diverse team that won this year’s X-Prize. The team Limelight competed to innovate technology “to improve the speed and precision of biodiversity surveys in support of global conservation efforts”. Rob is a faculty
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Recent published paper by TCD’s Marianne Schmink; alum Danny Pinedo and collaborators on Transformative change for Amazonian socio-bioeconomies.
Access the article “Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomy’s for people and ecosystems in the Amazon” here. Current social-technical and political conditions threaten the integrity of the Amazon biome. Overcoming these lock-ins requires structural transformations away from conventional economies towards ‘socio-bioeconomies’ (SBEs). SBEs are economies based on the sustainable use and restoration of Amazonian
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Transdisciplinary Research in the Amazon Program Fieldwork
Updates from Bolivia by Program Coordinator Marliz Arteaga. The time has come for our five research teams to head into the field. They consist of 5 UAP students, 3 UF researchers, 5 academic mentors, 2 field mentors, and 1 program coordinator. They are set to spend the next two weeks in the Alto Madeira watershed.
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