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On the last day of the wrap-up of Fulbright Amazonia, the Fulbright Amazonia teams released three policy briefs, including one about climate change.

Our symposium on Climate Change in the Amazon took place from 12:30-5:30 pm on December 6, 2024 at the IACS Conference Room. Below the fold for a synopsis!

Writing for The Scientist, Hannah Thomasy provides context for the new reviewed preprint by Bill Thomas in eLife. Congratulations, Bill! For more details, read the Stony Brook University news!

Will biodiversity make it? Out and about at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), read the write-up at the Institute for Globalization Studies news. Or below the fold.

Our symposium on Climate Change in the Amazon took place from 12:30-5 pm on December 6, 2024 at the IACS Conference Room. This symposium brings together six Fulbright Amazonia scholars whose work spans disciplines in human and economic geography, policy, and remote sensing, all focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation in the Amazon. The symposium includes an Ask-Me-Anything lunch for students.

Paul Donat graduated in the Spring 2024 doctoral hooding ceremony and continues his work as science teacher at Hampton Bays Public Schools. Dr. Donat’s dissertation explored new sex chromosomes in Humulus and Artibeus jamaicensis.

This analysis by Mie Dahl includes several quotes by Dávalos. While minor compared to the deforestation caused by clearing for pasture, coca cultivation still affects local communities through contamination of soil and water, violence and crime — yet remains a vital source of livelihood for more than 230,000 families.