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TCD Innovation Award deadline November 16, 2020
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TCD Innovation Award deadline November 16, 2020
For application info, please visit the TCD Innovation Award page The Schmink Innovation Award seeks to ensure the long-term impact of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program around the world by catalyzing new ideas and innovative approaches and by enabling shared learning throughout the tropics. This new TCD award is funded by an endowment
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TCD-SFRC’s Ana Violato Espada leads a community exchange in Brazil’s extractive reserves
Ana Violato Espada, a doctoral researcher at the University of Florida, organized a community exchange among users of six Brazilian Amazon extractive reserves to emphasize collective inquiry, experimentation grounded in experience, and the wealth of social learning related to community timber management. The community exchange was part of Ana’s fieldwork (May 2018 to September 2019)
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Congratulations to “Outstanding Colombian Abroad” Diana Alvira (SNRE & TCD Alumna)
UF SNRE and TCD alumna Diana (Tita) Alvira was selected by the Consulate of Colombia in Chicago as an outstanding Colombian working abroad in a ceremony on October 10th.This date coincides with the “National Day of the Colombian Migrant”, which was established in 1999 to recognize the courage and work of Colombians working outside of
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TCD Working Group Grant – Deadline 10.12.20
TCD Working Group Grants are designed to catalyze an interdisciplinary group of students and faculty to meet over the course of a semester or two semesters to address themes that involve the interface between conservation and development, or new connections between disciplines or approaches that have not been or have only been minimally explored. Competitive
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Workshop of the Amazon Dams International Research Network: “Key knowledge gaps for decision-making”
The 5th thematic session of the 3rd International Workshop of the Amazon Dams International Research Network, Panel 5: “Key knowledge gaps for decision-making”, is approaching. It will be held on October 2, 2020 2:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (USA). The panelists will be: Amarilis Gallardo, an associate professor in the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering at the Polytechnic
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TCD Student Group Tropical Trivia Night
Join the TCD Student Group for a Tropical Trivia night! Reconnect with the TCD community while having some fun. Thursday, September 24th @ 7 – 8:30 pm A Zoom link and password will be sent to those registered prior to the event Register HERE