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Announcing the 2024 Nadeau Graduate Research Award Winners!

by Patricia Escobar-Torres
August 12, 2024

The School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) is delighted to announce this year’s recipients of the Nadeau Graduate Research Award, a grant established by the Robin E. Nadeau fund to support research and education in SNRE.   SNRE ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development
Tags: Ana Yoko Meiga Ykeuti, Interdisciplinary Ecology, Lydia Soifer, Nadeau Graduate Research Award, Orlando Acevedo-Charry, School Of Natural Resources And Environment, Silvia De Melo Futada
giant anteater in field

Student Spotlight: Ana Yoko on studying giant anteaters in the Brazilian Cerrado

by Stephanie Castellano
September 14, 2023

Watching giant anteaters eat, sleep, play and give piggyback rides to their pups was part of this summer’s fieldwork for Ana Yoko Ykeuti Meiga, a PhD student in SNRE’s Interdisciplinary Ecology program. Ana accompanied a team of researchers ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, UF/IFAS Teaching, Wildlife
Tags: Interdisciplinary Ecology, School Of Natural Resources And Environment
Hikers on trail

Student Spotlight: Ernesto Viveiros de Castro on conservation in national parks

by Stephanie Castellano
December 13, 2022

Imagine spending a whole summer hiking epic American routes like the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail – and calling it research. That’s what PhD student Ernesto Viveiros de Castro did in the summer of 2022 as part of ... READ MORE

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Tags: Conservation, Ecotourism, Ernesto Viveiros-de-Castro, Interdisciplinary Ecology, School Of Natural Resources And Environment
landscape photo of the savanna with shrubbery and a tree

CALS student named runner-up in Three Minute Thesis competition

by Meredith Oglesby
December 3, 2021

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Savannah Troy, a doctoral student studying interdisciplinary ecology, earned the runner-up spot in the University of Florida Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition. Troy’s dissertation research focuses ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Teaching
Tags: Fisheries Aquatic Sciences, Interdisciplinary Ecology, Research, Three Minute Thesis, Wildlife Ecology Conservation
landscape of Ecuador

Peace Corps experience inspires interdisciplinary ecology student

by Caitlin Petros
April 7, 2021

Everyone’s experience in the Peace Corps is different, said Amanda Brinton, an Interdisciplinary Ecology graduate student. For Amanda, her experience in the jungles of Ecuador meant finding her passion for solid waste management. Amanda is ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Amanda Brinton, Interdisciplinary Ecology, Peace Corps, School Of Natural Resources And Environment, Solid Waste, Waste Management
adult Central American tapir in forest

Interdisciplinary Ecology student awarded the Belize Audubon Society’s conservation award

by Caitlin Petros
February 21, 2021

The Belize Audubon Society awarded Interdisciplinary Ecology Ph.D. student Celso Poot with the James A. Waight Award. The annual award is the most prestigious Belizean honor for conservation. It was presented to Celso on Feb. 16, 2021. The ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Belize Audubon Society, Celso Poot, Interdisciplinary Ecology, School Of Natural Resources And Environment, Tapir

NSF Fellow in SNRE – Ben Lowe

by Darryl Palmer
November 2, 2020

By Patrick Farrar Four outstanding graduate students in UF’s School of Natural Resources and Environment have received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards from the National Science Foundation. The highly-competitive ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Natural Resources, Water
Tags: Ben Lowe, Inland Fisheries, Interdisciplinary Ecology, National Science Foundation, School Of Natural Resources And Environment

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