WFT - CDF schedule Fall 2005

Schedule of Working Forests in the Tropics Working Group meetings
Fall 2005

Conservation and Development Forum

Schedule for Fall semester 2005

All meetings are Fridays from 12:45 – 2:15pm

Date	Topic	Presenter (s)	Room
September 23	Forest Public Policies in Mato Grosso and Acre – reflections based on two WFT field courses	Simone Athayde, Lucas Fortini, Jeff Luzar, Franklin Paniagua and Ane Alencar	NZ 376
October 14	Environmental Service Payments	Claudia Romero and Amy Daniels	NZ 376
October 21	Evaluation of Extractive Reserve Policy	Mary Allegretti	NZ 376
October 28	Collective learning in community-based conservation: Experiences from the field	Elena Bastidas, Susan Poats, Alvaro Velasco, and Xatli Murillo	NZ 376
November 4	Can traditional land tenure survive globalization?	Tom Ankerson, Grenville Barnes, Thomas Ruppert, and Jerry Mueller	Grinter 471
November 18	Indigenous Grassroots Movements and Conservation: A Comparative Perspective between Bolivia, Brazil and Peru	Margarita Benevides, Simone Athayde and Veronica Villasenor	NZ 376
December 2	Fire Ecology	Ricardo Mello Leslie Boby, and others, to be determined	NZ 376

The Conservation and Development Forum is a new venue created this semester to share our experiences and findings, with roundtables, presentations, and discussions organized by region or by cross-cutting theme. We aim to create a forum for discussion that complements rather than replicates Tropilunch.

Conservation and Development Forum organizers: Mary Allegretti, Simone Athayde, Bob Buschbacher, Georgina Cullman, Amanda Holmes, and Skya Murphy.

Please contact Georgina (gcullman@ufl.edu) with any questions.

Tropilunch

Schedule for Fall semester 2005

All meetings are Tuesdays 12:45 – 1:35pm in Grinter 376

Date	Topic	Presenter (s)
September 6	Impact of the BR-163 Road Paving Project	Ane Alencar
September 13	Cross-Cultural Responses to Hazards and Disasters in the Context of Latin American Conservation and Development	Eric Jones
September 20	The Logging Industry in the Brazilian Amazon	Marco Lentini
September 27	CV writing workshop	Emilio Bruna Bob Buschbacher
October 4	Fish, Fruits, and Fisher folk: The Ecology of the relationship between fishes and forests for Community-based fishery and forest management in the Lower Amazon River	Christine Lucas
October 11	Discussion of the TCD internal evaluation	Hannah Covert
October 18	Monitoring Ecological Integrity: A Holistic Approach from the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala	Jeremy Radachowsky
October 25	The Joys of Practitioner Experience: Disseminating Research Results in Nicaragua and Belize	Jensen Montambault and Jenny Haddle
November 1	Evaluating the Success of Forest Conservation Efforts by Smallholder Cacao Producers in Southern Bahia, Brazil	Katie Painter
November 8	Balancing the Relationship between Global Conservation NGO’s and Local Communities through Research	JG Collomb
November 15	The Moore Foundation's Amazon-Andes Program Strategy	Dr. Jaime Cavelier
November 22	Governance and management of the Upper Acre River, Pando, Bolivia	Gaby Stocks
November 29	TCD practitioner experience with Earth Bound project to commercialize Ye'Kwana traditional baskets, Caura River basin, Venezuela	Carlton Pomeroy

Tropilunch is a weekly seminar series run by graduate students from the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) Program. It provides a forum for a range of discussions and presentations related to TCD work and research. Students are provided with an opportunity to present and discuss their research projects with peers and faculty. In addition, discussion sessions on issues of current interest are also held. Visiting scholars and conservation practitioners also participate when available.

Eco think-tank

Schedule for Fall semester 2005

Date	Presenter	Topic
9/7	Chris Burney	Birds of the French Subantarctic Islands
9/14	Jeff Hostetler	A Population Model for Northern Bobwhites
9/21	Gwen Iacona	Understory seedling diversity and recruitment in the long leaf pine ecosystem
9/28	Santiago Espinosa	Changes in indigenous people's culture and road development on the jaguar-prey system in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
10/5	Arpat Ozgul	Spatiotemporal Variation in Vital Rates: Implications for Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmot
10/12	Markus Tellkamp	Are tropical avifaunas doomed? - Insights from zooarchaeology
10/19	Antonio Aguiar-Neto	Edge effects and tree diversity loss: The role of the pioneer palm Attalea oleifera
10/26	Socrates cafe	“Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World” discussion
11/2	Dr. Camilla	How to publish papers on wildlife research: the perspective of a journal editor
11/9	Brian Spiesman	Landscape structure influences on Florida ant communities
11/16	Jeremy Radachowsky	Conservation biology – a losing battle?
11/23	Holiday	Holiday
11/30	Matt Shurly (sp?)
12/7	Ann George

Eco think-tank is a weekly discussion session organized by graduate students of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. These meetings are held in a friendly and informal setting and provide a great place for students to present their research proposals, summer data or synopsis of their thesis/ dissertation work. It is an excellent opportunity to obtain feedback and suggestions from our peers and faculty members to further improve the quality of our research.

We are also interested in an exchange of ideas across disciplines, and encourage students who are interested in ecology/conservation from other departments to attend and present their work at these sessions.