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WORKSHOPS

We're pleased to offer a series of workshops designed to enrich your experience and expand your expertise in various aspects of tropical biology and conservation. Registration for these workshops is reserved exclusively for participants who are registered for ATBC2024. Spaces are limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to secure your spot promptly.

• Saturday, July 13th, 9:00 - 12:00 hrs
• Sunday, July 14th, 9:00 - 12:00 hrs
• Monday, July 15th, 8:00 - 12:00 hrs

Writing for Publication in Peer-Review Journals: An Interactive and Collaborative Workshop

Sophie Calmé, Sarah Bologna

Writing for Publication in Peer-Review Journals: A 3-day collaborative workshop to inspire, upskill, and motivate emerging scientists from the global South to engage with global conversations and, through making their voices heard, help to enrich and bring diversity to global debates.

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• Saturday, July 13th, 9:00 - 12:00 hrs

Bridging Worlds: Using Illustration/Art as a Common Language for Inclusive Science in the Tropics

Alejandra Perez-Enriquez

Join us at the symposium to explore how inclusive science and the use of illustration as a universal language can foster multidirectional knowledge exchange, bridging the gap between diverse communities and the scientific community for effective conservation and resilience in the tropics.

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• Sunday, July 14th, 9:00 - 12:00 hrs

Introduction to Environmental Journalism for University and Journalism School Students (Open to all, including those not attending ATBC 2024)

David Akana, Christophe Assogba, and Juliette Chapalain

This hands-on workshop aims to equip university and journalism students with the skills and knowledge needed to conduct effective environmental journalism, culminating in creating articles with the potential for publication by Mongabay.

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• Monday, July 15th, 8:00 - 12:00 hrs

Opposite Ecological Forces: Exploring the Interplay of Floods and Fires in Tropical Wetlands

Geraldo Damasceno-Junior

This session aims to discuss the response of biota to fire and flood on tropical fire-prone wetlands and the climatic, economic, socio-ecological, and management aspects of these very special environments.

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• Monday, July 15th, 8:15 - 12:00 hrs

Improving Collaboration with Local Partners: Finding Common Ground While Stepping Away from Helicopter Science

Sumita Chatterjee

This workshop will be an interactive guided discussion to find points of commonality and diversity in our value systems within conservation, and how to work together to move away from helicopter science, and to build stronger international collaborations.

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• Monday, July 15th, 8:30 - 11:30 hrs

Ready, Set, Publish: An Overview of the Paper Publication Process

Jennifer Powers

This workshop will discuss strategies for getting your research published in the peer-reviewed, scientific literature.

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• Monday, July 15th, 10:00 - 12:00 hrs

Multilingual Exploration of the Values of Tropical Diversity

Patricia Balvanera

In this workshop we will identify the diversity of values of nature at that stake in different social ecological contexts, what are the power relations among those values and the value holders, how to build a more plural valuation, and what is the role of the tropical ecologists

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• Monday, July 15th, 10:00 - 12:00 hrs

An Introduction to Environmental DNA for Monitoring and Surveillance: Survey Design, Collection Methods and Applications

Buffy Smith

A walk through of the possibilities of improved ecological survey techniques using environmental DNA methods. An interactive workshop aimed to make sampling for the different states of eDNA (aquatic, air and invertebrate) more accessible. With guidance on which sampling method is most efficient for different orders of animals, and habitats.

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• Tuesday, July 16th, 14:00 - 17:30 hrs

Toward Inclusive Conservation: Incorporating Gender into Research and Practice

Leandra Merz, Audrey Smith, Claudia Garnica Diaz

This interactive workshop aims to engage participants in fostering more inclusive conservation by incorporating a gendered lens in fieldwork, research approach and implementation, and conservation program and policy development.

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• Tuesday, July 16th, 14:00 - 17:30 hrs

Social-Ecological Restoration Research in Rwanda: A Methodological Approach

Apollinaire William

The workshop session on “Social-Ecological Restoration Research in Rwanda: A methodological Approach” is an interactive session that will combine short presentations and group discussions. It will provide to participants various methods and techniques needed to conduct a multidisciplinary restoration research for social-ecological outcomes, including the organization of stakeholders and their

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• Tuesday, July 16th, 14:00 - 17:30 hrs

Communicating Conservation Science

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo and Terna Gyus

The workshop will help scientists build communication skills to increase the likelihood of attracting media coverage of their work, potentially leading to greater impact of their research and improved public visibility.

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• Tuesday, July 16th, 14:00 - 16:00 hrs

Introducing Bioacoustics as a Conservation Tool

Fran Tattersall

This workshop explores how bioacoustics can be used as a survey and monitoring tool for conservation research.

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• Tuesday, July 16th, 16:15 - 17:30 hrs

Early Career Researcher Workshop at ATBC 2024

Megan Sullivan, Edu Effiom, Maria Natalia Umaña

We aim to better understand the specific needs of early career researchers who attend the ATBC 2024 meeting and use this information to help create programming and events hosted by ATBC and regional chapters in the coming year to serve the needs of ECRs.

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