FLMNH Faculty and TCD affiliate receives X-Prize for work on improvement of Biodiversity surveys

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FLMNH Faculty and TCD affiliate receives X-Prize for work on improvement of Biodiversity surveys
November 21, 2024 Faculty,featured,News Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

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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TCD present at COP16
October 3, 2024 Events Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

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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Remembering a beloved member of our TCD community
September 24, 2024 Alumni,News Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Meshach Pierre, a recent UF/TCD/Sociology alum who received a Master’s degree and a TCD graduate certificate.  For his Master’s degree Meshach examined the human dimensions of human-jaguar conflict in the Rupununi region of Guyana, his home country.  He applied the interdisciplinary conservation criminology framework in
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Recent published paper by TCD’s Marianne Schmink; alum Danny Pinedo and collaborators on Transformative change for Amazonian socio-bioeconomies.
September 5, 2024 Alumni,Faculty,featured Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

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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Thank you from the TCD Student Group
August 19, 2024 Events,TCD student group Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

We would like to thank the TCD community very much for attending our Taste of the Tropics on Sunday, April 28th!  As expected, it was a great gathering. We shared good food and had lots of fun while collaborating as a community with the TCD program.  We want to thank our TCD program coordinators, faculty
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Fall 2024 TCD Orientation & Gathering
August 18, 2024 Events,TCD student group Patricia Delamonica Sampaio

Join us to learn about the TCD Program and TCD Student Group and hear about events , opportunities and reconnect / meet current and new students and faculty! Friday, August 30, 2024@ 12-4 pm in Smather’s Library, Room 100Join us for lunch *RSVP HERE* TCD FALL ORIENTATION/GATHERING August 30, 2024 (12:00-4:00 w/ lunch) Library East
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