Tropical Conservation & Development Program
UF Center for Latin American Studies
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 from the Program or from LAS to conduct their field work in 2021. The awarded students and their awarded research topic are listed in the table below:
| Grand prize | Alejandro Sanchez | Facilitating smallholder farmer engagement with data-driven agriculture: a case of study in the Yucatán Peninsula, México |
| 1st Prize Pre-dissertation | Vanessa Luna-Celino | Forbidden fire and the role of community-based fire management in the Peruvian Andes |
| 2nd Prize pre-dissertation | Natalia Uribe-Castañeda | Community engagement in Coral Reef Restoration |
| 2nd Prize masters LAS | Autumn Rose | Investigating Influences on Environmental Change in Ancient Mesoamerica through Body Size Trends in Terrestrial Mammals |
| 2nd prize MDP | Jennifer Johnson | Learning from the International Diversity of Health Worker Protests During COVID-19 |
| Best video award | Raine Donohue | Identifying pathways to prosperity for rural communities in the Peruvian Amazon through the PRIME framework and the Green Value Tool® |