Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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UFIC highlights TCD new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia
Thanks to UF’s International Center for their highlight of our new transdisciplinary participatory research exchange in partnership with Universidad Amazónica de Pando in Bolivia. The project builds on a transdisciplinary research and mentor program that began with the Governance and Infrastructure in the Amazon project ( see https://giamazon.org ). Working with professors from UF, UAP,
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Helicopter Science Workshop Series: Power Dynamics in International Research
What can we learn from researching the researchers? Anthropologist Johanna Crane spent over a year studying a US-Uganda HIV research partnership as an ethnographer. In this talk, she’ll describe how international power dynamics can be embedded in mundane, taken-for-granted aspects of research like data management, grants administration, and indirect cost reimbursement. Using ethnographic examples from
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TCD Students among winners of Fieldwork Festival
Congratulations to the TCD students that have received an award at the Center for LAS Fieldwork Festival on March 10th. It was great to see all the posters from the LAS and TCD FRG awardees from the previous years. We can’t wait to see what you will have to share next spring from your 2023
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Special Lecture “Odors, ontologies, and the age of Covid: Ethnobotany for the 21st Century”
Please join us for a Special co-sponsored event by TCD and UF Ethnogarden “Odors, Ontologies, and the Age of COVID: Ethnobotany for the 21st Century” By Dr. Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Goeldi Museum, Brazil Thursday, March 9th, 4:00 – 5:15 PM McCARTY HALL B, Room 2102 Odors represent an important but little studied aspect of indigenous
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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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