Tropilunch Fall 2019

Date  Name, Position, Institution Title
(YouTube link)
Aug 28Moses Nyago, MS student, SFRCCorporate Social Responsibility and Investment in REDD+ Conservation in Uganda (no recording available)
Sep 4Leandra Merz, PhD student, GeographyAttitudes toward wildlife in Mozambique (YouTube link)
Sept 11Ryan Thomson, PhD candidate SociologyWe gonna be right here: Gates and Fakes invade the Gullah/Geechee Sea Islands
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Sep 18Dr. Kaoru Kitajima, Kyoto UniversityTropical forest conservation and development in Asia: Who is doing what to keep up with a rapidly changing world  (YouTube link)
Sep 25Leonardo Resende, Pontificia Universidade Católica (PUC) do Rio de Janeiro Environmental, social and economic recovery through silvopastoral systems: study cases at Brazilian cattle farms (YouTube linK)
Oct 2Dr. Simone Athayde & others, TCDJuridical and Technological Tools for Territorial Management of Indigenous and Traditional People’s Lands in the Amazon (YouTube link)
Oct  9Water Institute Graduate Fellows 2017 Cohort & UF Law Costa Rica Program
Interdisciplinary research collaboration and stakeholder engagement  in the management of the Tampique River watershed (YouTube link)
Oct 16Dr. Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems
The vital role of livestock in meeting global education, nutrition, economic and sustainability needs (YouTube link)
Oct 23Dr. Thaissa Sobreiro, SNRE/TCD Alumna & Instituto Socioambiental, Brazil
2017 Schmink Dissertation Award presentation: Indigenous mobilization and multi-local livelihood in the middle Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazon (YouTube link)
Oct 30Carol Jordão and Wendy-Lin Bartles, TCDGender integration, monitoring and capacity building for sustainable value chains in the amazon: Lessosn learned in from a local NGO project in Mato Grosso, Brazil (YouTube link)
Nov 6Farah Carrasco, PhD candidate, SNRELand use change and bat biodiversity (YouTube link)
Nov 13Myrian Barboza, PhD. Candidate, Anthropology program at UF & Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology at UFPA (Brazil)“Basket of knowledge”: Weaving networks, connecting multiple ways of knowing and technologies through the creation and use of alternative didactic kits in indigenous pedagogy in Amazonas, Brazil (2017 Schmink Innovation Award) (YouTube link)
Nov 20Ana Carolina Fiorini, PhD student BiologyBrazilian forest code instruments used to promote Atlantic Forest restoration (YouTube link)
Nov 27Dr. Megan Raby, Department of History, UT AustinThe colonial history of tropical field stations and the roots of biodiversity science (YouTube link)
Dec  4Dr. Joel Correia, TCD & LAS
Frontiers of environmental justice: Human rights, environmental change, and indigenous struggles in South America’s Chaco region (YouTube link)