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The Yale Tropical Resources Institute (TRI) supports interdisciplinary, problem-oriented student research on the most complex challenges confronting the conservation and management of tropical environments and natural resources worldwide. 

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September 2, 2020
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TRI Fellow Profiles

December 3, 2025
Where did you go for your fellowship? My research is in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in the northeast corner of Botswana. The Makgadikgadi Basin is made up of large...
2025
December 3, 2025
Where did you go for your fellowship? I spent my summer in southern Bahia, Brazil, working in a remnant patch of coastal tropical Atlantic Forest. I stayed in a town called...
2025
December 3, 2025
Where did you go for your fellowship? This summer, I traveled to my home country of the Philippines to do multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork for my MESc thesis. My two field...
2025