Tropical Conservation and Development Program

♥️ Who we are🙌 For nearly 40 years TCD has been convening @UF students, faculty, alumni and partners in the theoretical and practical advancement of tropical and subtropical conservation and development through interdisciplinary research approaches and collaborative learning.

Last #Tropilunch of the semester. Excited to hear about forest conservation and management in Mexico from PhD candidate Oscar Godinez. ⁦@UF_IFAS⁩ ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFSNRE⁩

Congratulations to Dr. Vanessa Luna who won 2024 Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award !! Today she returns to tell her journey including her results from her dissertation research. ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFSNRE⁩ ⁦@ufalumni⁩ ⁦@GlobalGators⁩

Congratulations Dr. Victoria Reyes-Garcia for being recognized as UF Distinguished Alumna. Award was given by her PhD Advisor and Professor Emerita Dr. Marianne Schmink and CLAS Dean Mary Watt. ⁦@AnthropologyUF⁩ ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UF_CLAS⁩

Graduating students are filing in. Excited that at this event TCD/Anthro alum Dr. Victoria Reyes-Garcia is receiving UF Distinguished Alumni Award ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@AnthropologyUF⁩ ⁦@ufalumni⁩ ⁦@GlobalGators⁩

Thrilled to have Orlando talking about his PhD project! ⁦@UFSNRE⁩ ⁦@UFWildlife⁩ ⁦@LatamUF⁩

Excited to hear from Leo Villalon in #Tropilunch today!! ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@africa_uf⁩

Don't miss the poster show tomorrow at the Center for Latin American Studies "Fieldwork Festival"!! TCD, MDP, MALAS field research will be on display!! @LatamUF @UfMdp @UFWildlife @UFSNRE @SFFGS_UF @UFSocCrim @GlobalGators

Happy Monday! Thrilled to see 2 TCD grad students giving exit seminars today. MDP student Rosemary Maro at 2 PM, 471 Grinter and SNRE/WEC PhD candidate Orlando Acevedo-Charry at 3:30 PM 112 Newins-Ziegler! @LatamUF @UFWildlife @UFSNRE @UfMdp @africa_uf

Looking forward to see results of field research by these amazing students! One of the best events of the year!! Thanks for hosting @LatamUF and see you there!! @UfMdp

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So excited to have #TCDUF alumna ⁦@CrisNunezGodoy⁩ & #MarcelaMarquez in today’s #Tropilunch sharing their experiences about writing process. ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFSNRE⁩ ⁦@ufalumni⁩

TCD alum Sam Schramski is giving #Tropilunch today!!! ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFSNRE⁩

Pangolins under pressure!! #Tropilunch with PhD student Coral Keegan. ⁦@UFWildlife⁩

Our #Tropilunch speaker is being introduced!! Join us online!

Tropilunch with Jazmin Gonzalez Tovar is just starting. ⁦@ufalumni⁩ ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@SFFGS_UF⁩

Huge news from @mobotgarden Missouri Botanical Garden names its first woman president spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/ne…

So excited to have Wenyi Zhou in Tropilunch today!! Starting now! ⁦@FloridaMuseum⁩ ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFBiology⁩

Tropilunch begins in Fall 2024!! Thanks to Percy Peralta for joining us! ⁦@LatamUF⁩ ⁦@UFSNRE⁩ #gatornation ⁦@ufalumni⁩

Judging is still on!! Hearing amazing reports of the dishes!!!

Judges are hard at work tasting and deciding on best dishes! Tension mounting. ⁦our own ⁦@BrunaLab⁩ is a judge!!!