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TCD Students Fundraising Projects are Launched – Spread the Word and Support these Innovative Students

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TCD Students Fundraising Projects are Launched – Spread the Word and Support these Innovative Students

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2020-02-26T19:44:56+00:00 February 25th, 2020|courses, graduate students, TCD|

Today, 9 graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development Program launched their GoFundMe campaigns to support their summer research or professional activities. These campaigns are part of a "learn-by-doing" professional skills courses that contribute to achieving a graduate certificate in Tropical Conservation and Development at the University of Florida. Students will be conducting [...]

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Diego Garcia Oleachea teaches “Introduction to Occupancy Models”

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Diego Garcia Oleachea teaches “Introduction to Occupancy Models”

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2019-10-18T17:01:04+00:00 October 18th, 2019|birds, courses, Peru, WEC|

Just recently, Diego Garcia visited the Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva (INDES-CES) at the Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza in Chachapayos, Amazonas, Peru to lead a workshop on "Introduction to Occupancy Models using R". Diego is a PhD candidate in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at University of Florida co-advised [...]

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Crowdfunding as a learning tool

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Crowdfunding as a learning tool

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2018-05-30T14:06:04+00:00 May 30th, 2018|courses, graduate students, TCD, teaching|

Back in 2014 at Emilio Bruna's suggestion, we embarked on a new skills course for graduate students in the Tropical Conservation and Development program - Fundraising Skills for Conservation and Development. Our goals for the course were to (1) to introduce students to the diverse set of private and public sources for funding their [...]

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Wrapping up The Amazon seminar

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Wrapping up The Amazon seminar

By loiselleb@gmail.com| 2015-12-14T17:10:58+00:00 December 14th, 2015|Amazon, Brazil, courses, Ecuador, graduate students, interdisciplinary, LAS, Peru, TCD, teaching|

I had the distinct privilege of co-teaching The Amazon seminar with Dr. Marianne Schmink in Fall 2015 - what a great experience! Marianne has been teaching this foundation inter-disciplinary seminar since 1981 when she first taught the course with Drs. Charles Wagley and Chuck Wood. This fall we had 16 fabulous students and several faculty [...]

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UF-OTS Graduate Specialty Course in Costa Rica

By Bette Loiselle| 2014-06-17T21:47:34+00:00 June 17th, 2014|Costa Rica, courses, ecology, field station, graduate students, interdisciplinary, OTS, TCD, teaching, tropical|

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 [...]

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OTS Graduate Courses

By Bette Loiselle| 2014-01-16T16:02:04+00:00 January 16th, 2014|courses, OTS, TCD, teaching|

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 [...]

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