What is Tropi-Dry?

TROPI-DRY is a collaborative research network sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI). TROPI-DRY's goal is to bring together researchers in conservation biology, ecology and evolution, remote sensing and geographic information systems, sociology, anthropology, policy analysis, and forestry to develop a comprehensive, “state of the art” understanding of the status of tropical dry forests (primary and secondary) in the Americas. TROPI-DRY's research focuses on Ecological Research, Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS, and Human Dimension issues, and in collaboration with local and national policy-making organizations, produces comprehensive and comparative land use/policy studies in tropical dry regions in the natural and social sciences. At present, Tropi-Dry incorporates researchers and institutions from Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, United States of America and Venezuela. Click for more »

TROPI-DRY News

1. Tropi-dry will be participating in the upcoming synthesis meeting of the IAI Collaborative Research Network ( CRN ) program, to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 14-18).

2. Tropi-Dry will participate with a symposium on the forthcoming 34th International Symposium for Remote Sensing of the Environment.

3. Tropi-Dry linkages to Geochronos have been completed. Please check the Geochronos website for more information.

4. Mr. Milton Barbosa, a Tropi-Dry graduate student at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, has been awarded a prestigious Canadian Emerging Leaders of the Americas Fellowship. Mr. Barbosa will conduct his fellowship at the University of Alberta Centre for Earth Observation Sciences.

5. Two Brazilian students have received funding from CAPES Brazil to conduct a sandwich Ph.D. program at the University of Alberta as well a post-doctoral fellowship at the same university.

6. Tropi-Dry will be presenting a position paper commissioned by the Inter- American Development Bank on strategies for conservation and management of tropical dry forests under climate change. The paper will be presented for discussion at the The Second International Conference on Climate, Sustainability and Sustainable Development in semiarid regions

7. Tropi-Dry Costa Rica continues collaboration with the Costa Rica National Forest Financing Fund on the development of new approaches for mapping the extent of tropical dry forests in Costa Rica.

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