The Tropical Resources Institute, or TRI, is an interdisciplinary, non-degree-granting center located within the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The mission of TRI is to support interdisciplinary, problem-oriented student research on the most complex challenges confronting the conservation and management of tropical environments and natural resources worldwide. TRI also sponsors and promotes educational initiatives throughout the academic year that focus on timely conservation and development issues in the global tropics.
TRI administers both the TRI Endowment Fellowship, which supports Masters and Doctoral level research in the tropics each year, as well as the Andrew Sabin International Environmental Fellowship, which provides tuition and post-graduate support to exceptional students from developing countries.
Acting Director: Carol Carpenter, Senior Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist in Natural Resource Social Science and Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology
Program Manager: Lisa Bassani
Current TRI Student Research in the Tropics (by region)
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Attend the Yale Chapter of ISTF 2012 Conference
The Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters will be hosting their 2012 Conference, "Stategies for Landscape-Scale Restoration in the Tropics", from January 26th to 28th, 2012. The conference is free and open to the public. Register now! Details here.
TRI Names 2011 Sabin Fellows
Seven students at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies have been named Andrew Sabin International Environmental Fellows. The students, selected by the Tropical Resources Institute, are Paulo Quadri Barba, Mexico; Lakshmi Krishnan, India; Jing Ma, China; Munjed Murad, Jordan; Kavita Sharma, India; Kanchan Shrestha, Nepal; and Shiyue Wang, China. Continue reading....
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