Oscar Gonzalez was recently awarded the "Doris Lowe and Earl and Verna Lowe Scholarship" from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. This competitive award is based on "merit and potential for contribution to the agricultural and wildlife environment". More about this and other CALS awards can be found here. [...]
PhD Student Farah Carrasco's work with Dr. Tremaine Gregory from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute showed that > 20 mammal species used natural canopy bridges to cross over linear clearings resulting from natural gas pipelines in the Peruvian rain forests. The article published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 5: 443, 2014) was recent [...]
Bette joined the on-going UF-OTS graduate specialty course in Costa Rica and spent a stimulating day discussing biodiversity conservation issues with law professors from Costa Rica and UF, law and natural resource students from Costa Rica, Colombia and the US. The course, Tropical Conservation and Sustainable Development: Law, Policy and Practice, combines lectures, field site [...]
Farah Carrasco Rueda is off to Peru on 30 April to begin her pilot field season examining the conservation value of forest trips in palm plantations. Farah is funded by a TCD field research grant. Oscar Gonzalez left for Carpish Mountains of Peru on 1 May to wrap up data collection for his PhD dissertation that [...]
Congratulations to Farah Carrasco Rueda, PhD student in SNRE, and Flavia Montano, PhD student in WEC, who both received field research grants from Tinker funds in the Center for Latin American Studies as part of the Tropical Conservation and Development program grant competition. Farah will work in Peru on a project entitled "What is the [...]
OTS is teaching a new graduate-level course on climate change in China in summer 2014. The course is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Check it out here. Also this summer we (Tom Ankersen, Franklin Paniagua, Richard Hamann from UF Levin College of Law) are teaching a graduate specialty course [...]
The semester has started and Emilio Bruna and I are teacing a class on fundraising - check it out here.
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