Symposium speakers and schedule

10:00am - Doors open! Socialize, music, tropical photo viewing, etc.

10:30am - Opening remarks

10:35am - Dr. Steve Osofsky - A holistic solution to conflict at the livestock / wildlife interface in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area

10:55am - Dr. Brandon Hedrick - Neotropical bats and adaptive radiations

11:15 - 10 minute break

11:25 - Riley Fortier - Botany at the Boiling River: investigating tropical tree diversity across a natural thermal gradient

11:45 - Ethan Duvall - A lust for salt by wildlife in the tropics

12:00 - Glenn Seeholzer - ┬┐Quién canta? Merlin Sound ID and tropical avifauna

12:10 - CATERED LUNCH! Must RSVP (click here)
+ photo contest viewing and voting!

13:00 - Jordan Boersma - Leveraging hunter knowledge to find the Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon, a species lost to science since the 1800s

13:15 - Dawn Parry - Trends of humpback whale occurrence in Bermuda

13:30 - Loren Jones - Diagnostic tools to identify exotic moths

13:40 - Tropical Trivia!

14:00 - Nancy Trautman - Carbon offsets through indigenous forest management

14:15 - Kyla O'Hearn - Time flies: analyzing historical survey data of Hawaiian Drosophila

14:30 - Parish Brady - Measuring the schooling structure and communication of Caribbean reef squid with 3D reconstructions using GoPros

14:40 - ANNOUNCE PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS AND PRIZES
(short break)

15:00 - Open discussion: "Tough topics in the tropics" - TBD

15:30 - SYMPOSIUM END - feel free to hang around and socialize!