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Vanessa Luna Celino is the 2024 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award recipient!
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Vanessa Luna Celino is the 2024 Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award recipient!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Vanesa Luna Celino is the 2024 winner of the Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award from UF’s Tropical Conservation and Development Program. Dr. Luna completed her dissertation in Interdisciplinary Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment in May 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Karen Kainer
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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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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 12/3/2024 Modern Approaches for vintage conservation problems in the Gran Chaco
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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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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TCD present at COP16
TCD is excited to be present at COP16 – 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – as we share experiences and learn how we can better adapt academic research and education to advance biocultural conservation and move towards more just and equitable approaches to conservation. Our
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