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DESCRIPTION:Join Us on November 19 for the 2025 Tinker Field Research Grant
  Symposium\n\nLACC is pleased to host the second symposium highlighting th
 e 2025 Tinker Field Research Grant recipients. This event will showcase th
 e exceptional work of FIU graduate students who conducted summer field res
 earch across Latin America and the Caribbean\, supported by the Kimberly G
 reen Latin American and Caribbean Center and the generous funding of the T
 inker Foundation.\n\nThe Tinker Field Research Grant provides graduate stu
 dents with the opportunity to engage directly with their research topics
 —building language skills\, deepening cultural understanding\, establish
 ing research networks\, and collecting preliminary data essential for futu
 re academic and professional development.\n\nJoin us in celebrating and su
 pporting this outstanding cohort of student researchers as they share insi
 ghts from their fieldwork and contributions to regional scholarship.\n\n10
 :00 AM – 12:30 PM\n\nDemonica Brown\, MS Environmental Studies:         
       “Drivers of Nest Site Selection in Underground Nesting Bahama Parr
 ots on Great Abaco”\n\nAndrew Natter\, MS Biology: “Assessing Genetic 
 Connectivity of Permit (Trachinotus falcatus) Between Belize and South Flo
 rida”\n\nGabriela Ochoa\, Combined MS Forensic Science and PhD Biology: 
 Understanding Shark Movements and Foraging at Spawning Aggregations in Bel
 ize”\n\nJeison Oviedo\, Combined MA LACS and PhD GSS: “Community Media
 \, Territory and Alternate Territorialities in Montes de Maria\, Colombia
 ”\n\nRuchao Qian\, PhD Biology: “Crypsis and Motion Camouflage in Pray
 ing Mantises”\n\n2:00 PM – 4:30 PM\n\nDavid Santamaria: PhD Earth Syst
 ems Science: “Investigating the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphib
 ius) as an invasive species in Colombia”\n\nNicholas SirLouis\, PhD Biol
 ogy: “Long Term Successional Changes in Secondary Tropical Forests: Biod
 iversity and Functional Trajectories”\n\nNyya Toussaint\, PhD History: 
 “Global Black Social Movements and dependance on third spaces”\n\nVero
 nica Zuccolo\, PhD Biology: “The Ecological Role and Behavior of Tiger S
 harks in a Top Ecotourism Destination in Brazil”
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SUMMARY:2025 Tinker Field Research Grant presentations
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CATEGORIES:Workshops & Webinars
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