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Tropical Studies Blog

Where the tropics speak and stories grow – from canopy to community.

Welcome to the Tropical Studies Blog that takes you behind the scenes of OTS fieldwork, told by students, researchers, staff, and communities on the front lines of discovery.

Un Trópico Urbano más verde: Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza

Un Trópico Urbano más verde: Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza Liana Mora y Miguel Méndez. Entrevista realizada a la unidad de proyectos de la OET Gracias a la vinculación y las alianzas que la OET ha tenido con personas e...
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La Ciencia se dibuja

La ciencia también se dibuja  By Ana Sepulveda    Ciencia y arte definen lo que fui desde pequeña. Ser bióloga o artista fue el dilema existencial que viví cuando quería entrar a la universidad. Yo crecí en un pueblo muy...
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One Frond at a Time: The Transformative Journey of an OTS Ambassador

One Frond at a Time: The Transformative Journey of an OTS Ambassador By Cristopher Jiménez-Orozco As part of our ongoing spotlight on OTS alumni, we reached out to Cristopher Jiménez-Orozco—an undergraduate biology student at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo and...
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Investigating the Welfare of Wild Fish in Dammed and Free-Flowing Rivers

When Rivers Speak: Exploring Fish Welfare in a Changing MekongBy the OTS South Africa Team Interest in animal welfare is expanding beyond traditional subjects of mammals and birds to include invertebrates and lower-order vertebrates including fishes. This shift reflects growing...
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Welcome Rebecca Cole and OTS’ Tropical Center for Restoration Science 

Welcome Rebecca Cole and OTS’ Tropical Center for Restoration Science  It is with great anticipation and happiness that we welcome Rebecca Cole back to OTS to lead OTS’s Tropical Center for Restoration Science. Rebecca grew up in the Las Cruces...
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BioCursos: Connecting human ingenuity and nature

OTS is pleased to announce the relaunch of our BioCursos program, an initiative that seeks to make the natural world available to our community in an experiential way.  BioCursos is aimed at adults who love nature, promoting environmental education and...
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News from the Board and President/CEO – January 2025

Connecting with you in 2025! For OTS, 2024 was a year for renewing long-standing connections and making new ones. Over a year ago, on a trip to Las Cruces for the closing reception of the show of artist Deirdre Hyde,...
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OTS Attends the U.N. sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) in Cali, Colombia

In late October, OTS Director for Strategic Engagement Carlos Silva traveled to Cali as part of a delegation of more than 20 people from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) to attend COP16, the latest round of negotiations among 196...
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Alumni Ambassador spotlight – January 2025

Photo: Darren Lowery An interview with Darren Lowery, African Ecology and Conservation, Fall 2024 What made you decide to do an OTS program? I decided to do an OTS program, because I believed it would be an invaluable experience. I...
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Announcing the Dr. Nora Bynum Fund for Inclusion

To celebrate the work of Dr. Nora Bynum, who retired last fall from her position as OTS Dean of Academic Programs, OTS announces the Dr. Nora Bynum Fund for Inclusion. Nora has had a profound influence on OTS through her...
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