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TCD Conservation and Development Forum on Partnerships in times of change. Exploring trust, power & resilience in the Amazon and beyond.
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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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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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Message to TCD Students!
Dear TCD Students: We hope that you are winding up this Spring 2025 semester and advancing towards your graduate career goals. We want to thank you for being part of the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) graduate certificate / concentration community and check-in to see if you have any questions or concerns about meeting requirements.
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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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