Monthly Archives: March 2020

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Michael Esbach defends his PhD!!

By | March 18th, 2020|Amazon, camera, conservation, ecology, Ecuador, research, SNRE, TCD|

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Esbach (or at least officially at end of Spring semester 2020) who defended his PhD dissertation "Hunting for Justice: Indigenous self-determination and the sustainability of subsistence in the Ecuadorian Amazon" on 17 March 2020 in a "virtual" defense.  Thanks to committee members Drs. Stephen Perz, Susan Paulson and Robert Walker at [...]

Year 20 for Research in the Ecuadorian Amazon

By | March 6th, 2020|birds, ecology, Ecuador, field station, manakins, research|

Hello there!  This camera trap photo of a jaguar was captured in mid January along the Parahuaco trail in Tiputini Biodiversity Station, a field station in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve operated by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). John Blake has led the camera trap project together with Diego Mosquera, and earlier Jaime Guerra, as [...]