Monthly Archives: September 2019

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Farah Carrasco joins Field Museum staff in Chicago

By | September 23rd, 2019|Amazon, Andes, biodiversity, Peru, research|

Dr. Farah Carrasco finished her PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology (SNRE) in December 2018.  After wrapping up several of her publications, she joined the Field Museum staff in Chicago as Coordinator of the Putumayo Biological and Cultural Corridor, in the Andes Amazon Program of the Keller Science Action Center at the Museum.  There she works with UF [...]

Workshop in Peru focused on community-based conservation areas

By | September 20th, 2019|Andes, conservation, development, graduate students, Peru|

Last summer with the support of a local grass-root organization, Red AMA, Vanessa Luna organized a 2-day workshop in Chachapoyas, Peru to promote collective discussion on the factors that limit and facilitate the effective management of community-based conservation areas in the northern Peruvian Andes.  She brought together leaders from 10 communities and through use of [...]