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Workshops and Training for Students
TRI offers guidance to students interested in developing their proposals, projects and careers in the tropics. TRI coordinates events, consultations, and resources aimed at strengthening student research and professional initiatives:
- Workshops and training on proposal writing
- Guidance on research methods
- One-on-one advice
- Networks to regional expertise, institutions and on-the-ground contacts
- Links to field opportunities and organizations
- Support in attending conferences
Recent Activity
SCORE, the Social and Community-Oriented Research in the Environment SIG (Student Interest Group Student Interest Group) at F&ES, held this symposium on February 22, 2002. The goals were:
- To introduce the scope and background of participatory research and related techniques;
- To provide a forum for Yale students and faculty to critically analyze participatory research and its implications;
- To explore the issues faced in conducting research that involves the subjects in its design and execution;
- To describe methodological frameworks and tools for people who wish to attempt participatory research;
- To contribute to the utility of action-oriented environmental research.
 American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings
Anthropology and Environment Section
Conservation and Community Training Workshop
In November 2002 Amity Doolittle and several Masters students participated in a Community and Conservation Training Workshop as part of the American Anthropological Annual Meetings. This unique workshop featured four leading experts in community-based conservation. The trainers discussed tools and strategies for anthropologically-oriented conservation initiatives, including community mapping, supporting environmental law institutions, working with indigenous and local conservation efforts, and garnering funding.
About the trainers
Janis Alcorn is an ethnobotanist who for ten years directed the Asia & Pacific regional program and the Peoples, Forests & Reefs global program for the Biodiversity Support Program, a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy and the World Resources Institute. She received her PhD in botany from the University of Texas at Austin. Janis has researched and written on topics including cross-scale environmental governance, links between governance, democracy & environment, social movements, NGOs, and ecological resilience in Indonesia, conservation priority setting, and decentralization and conservation. In 1989, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 1995 she received the Richard Evans Schultes Award.
Alaka Wali is the Director of the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change of the Field Museum in Chicago will be joining Janis to discuss their mapping project in Central America.
Mac Chapin has over 30 years of experience working with indigenous peoples in Latin America as a Peace Corps volunteer, a field anthropologist, a Representative for the Inter-American Foundation, a Field Coordinator for World Wildlife Fund and Program Director for Cultural Survival. His primary area of expertise is with indigenous peoples of tropical forest indigenous groups of Central America and he has published widely on environmental and indigenous issues. In 1995, he received the Pew Fellows Award for Biodiversity Conservation. He founded the Center for the Support of Native Lands in 1993, and has coordinated a large-scale mapping projects in many countries. Mac has a BA in History from Stanford University, and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.
Owen Lynch, a lawyer and historian/anthropologist, works at the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington DC. He has been instrumental in training environmental lawyers throughout the developing world and in supporting institutions for environmental law. In his work he uses anthropology, history and common property theory to help local people articulate problems with past resource management systems and craft new ones, and he uses his legal skills to pursue legislative underpinnings for community-based management and policy. Owen received a Doctor of Law degree from Yale University with a dissertation on Philippine Land Law, which won the Ambrose Prize for best work in international law at Yale.
We hope that in the next academic year we can bring a similar workshop to F&ES for students who want to make a difference in how conservation projects are designed, funded, and managed.
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