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2025 LAS / TCD / MDP Field Research Festival
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2025 LAS / TCD / MDP Field Research Festival
The Center for Latin American Studies invites you to our annual Fieldwork Festival Poster Exhibit! Come discover the excellent fieldwork and research ourstudents are conducting. Talk with students while viewing their posters and multimedia work and stay for the awards ceremony! PUBLIC POSTER EXHIBITFriday, March 14 | 1:00-4:00 pmSmathers Rm 100
TCD Conservation and Development Forum on Partnerships in times of change. Exploring trust, power & resilience in the Amazon and beyond.
Join us for this year’s first TCD Conservation and Development Forum! Many of us are engaged in collectively addressing complexproblems that bridge natural & social ecosystems. Although werely on partnerships to shape expected change, we rarely payattention to how collaborative relationships are initiated,sustained or perform. During times of crisis (such as politicalshifts or funding cuts),
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Seminar and Workshop on Animal Tracking methods and analysis
Join us for a special talk AND beginner-friendly workshop on continuous-time stochastic process methods for animal tracking data analysis and for a Seminar. Learn key movement ecology concepts and get hands-on experience. Location: UFBI Office (E251 CSE), Room E252, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Instructor: Dr. Christen Fleming (Assistant Professor, UCF; ctmm lead developer) Requirements:
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Check out the new interactive map of the TCD community
We are working on building an interactive map of the worldwide TCD community. We have started to populate it with info about our current TCD students and hope by the beginning of the new year to have both Faculty and Alumni information updated as well. This map will illustrate the geographic and thematic diversity of
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Tropilunch 3/11/25 *Alumni series*: From TCD to FWC – Social science for tropical marine resource management in the Florida Keys
Tropilunch presentations are recorded weekly when possible and posted to TCD’s YouTube Channel. Tropilunch is a weekly seminar run by graduate students from the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program. It provides a forum for a range of discussions and presentations related to student and faculty work and research. Students are provided with an opportunity
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Help support your TCD Program by donating today on UF Giving Day February 20, 2025
TCD is calling on its diverse community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, students, partners and friends to consider making a gift to “add value” to the lives of TCD’s amazing graduate students! Every 2-bits help TCD provide opportunities for graduate students to get to the field, work with partners and alums, embed themselves in local communities,
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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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