UF Center for Landscape Conservation Planning
The Center conducts applied research on conservation, land use, and green infrastructure while provi
From the lab to the spotlight. 🎤🌿
What happens when you give undergraduates the tools to solve Florida's most complex conservation challenges? They take over the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
This week, our WildFL cohort traded their field gear and GIS workstations for the symposium floor. They didn't just present posters—they pitched real-world data and solutions for Florida’s wildlife corridors to a room full of peers and experts.
The standout moment? Seeing students explain how their team worked with the various tools in the course: geospatial data, camera trapping, AI RAGs and LLMs, stakeholder engagement, and county planning to protect landscape connectivity.
This isn't just "student work." It’s professional-grade science communication designed to bridge the gap between data and policy. A huge congratulations to these Undergraduate Research Scholars from the Center for Landscape Conservation Planning (CLCP) for showing us that the future of conservation is in very capable hands.
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Take a look at this article Sarah Lockhart and Tom Hoctor wrote for _The Conversation_ titled, "How a new mapping tool helps Florida planners protect wildlife corridors as the state grows." Then check out our Center's mapping tools HUB on our website (link in comments).
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How a new mapping tool helps Florida planners protect wildlife corridors as the state grows
theconversation.com
A new mapping tool allows local governments, conservation groups and landowners to understand how their land-use decisions affect wildlife and natural resources.
Next Monday – April 20 – please join us for a special eco-poetry event called "A Sense of Place" featuring our own Eleanor Laughlin and Gabriele Billetti, Assistant Professor of Italian and French.
A Sense of Place is an evening of poetry and place-based imagination organized in conjunction with the Wild Waters exhibition of Florida landscape paintings at the Governor’s House Cultural Center and Museum in St. Augustine, sponsored by the Center for Landscape Conservation Planning and the Harn Museum of Art. Centered on Florida waterscapes. Gabriele Belletti and a small group of UF students from “Poetry and Nature” (French program) will share short ecopoetic readings.
Sign up through the Lynx Bookstore website: thelynxbooks.com/events/4786120260420
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