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Stéphanie Vaz succesfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday, 14th november, by teleconference. She's now a doctor in Ecology for the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. Stéphanie's PhD seeks to analyse the threats affecting the distribution of the Atlantic Forest...
Bryony Blades, a PhD student from the University of Oxford, is joining MNCN for a 3-month research visit as part of her doctoral studies. Up until now, her research has focused on the distribution of Catharsius dung beetles in Africa, and the interplay between...
I was honoured to give the first International Biogeography Society's (IBS) Funk Lecture of the new season, which was hold online on Thursday, September 28, at 4 pm UTC. In this lecture, entitled "Mapping ignorance on biodiversity: towards a fair account of...
Genoveva González-Mirelis, from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (HI) at Bergen, will be part of the group during a 1-year sabbatical, until August 2024. Genoveva is interested in modelling the spatial distribution of marine benthic communities and species,...
María Fernanda Vázquez Flores, a MSc student from the Instituto de Biología in UNAM, is joining us for a 3-month stay at MNCM. She is interested in systematics, marine invertebrates and spatial analysis so the aim of her MSc work is to assess and quantify the...
I was lucky enough so as to spend over 50 minutes talking about the ecology, evolution and conservation with Derrick Jensen, an American philosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist. You can listen to this podcast at Resistance Radio, where Derrick Jensen...