A shout out to all of the Latino-Hispanic Organization of Graduate Students (LOGRAS) at UF who recently painted a mural on the famous 34th Street wall. Diego Juarez from WEC is President of LOGRAS. Farah Carrasco says "the initiative was born after the assassination of the environmental activist Bertha Caceres and the two Argentinean girls murdered [...]
Well, where did summer 2015 go? The semester starts tomorrow and the lab is heading back from all kinds of places - Peruvian Amazon, Bolivian Andes, Peruvian Andes, Ecuador Amazon, among others. We welcome new PhD student Michael Esbach who spent his summer in the Solomon Islands, and in western Amazonia (Ecuador). Looking forward to [...]
The Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation has a new tenure-track position open for an Assistant Professor in Global Change Ecology. We are looking for someone to develop an internationally recognized research program related to global change impacts on wildlife and biodiversity. The individual would be expected to: 1) teach an innovative, state-of-the-art undergraduate course [...]
Congratulations to PhD student Flavia Montano for receiving a grant worth ~$750 from IDEA WILD. Flavia came to UF from Bolivia and is currently in her second year in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. She is interested in examining how species and functional diversity change along environmental gradients. Her grant from IDEA WILD will provide some critical [...]
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 [...]
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