Friday, April 25, 2014 · Marsh Rotunda, Yale F&ES
10:00
10:15
Coffee & Arrive
Welcome from TRI Director Michael R. Dove and Program Managers
Dana Graef & Jeff Stoike. Brief Reflections on Themes of TRI Research from
Program Assistants Dana Baker, Sarah Tolbert & Emily Zink
10:30 – 12:00 First Panel: Development & Conservation in the Tropics
Coordinator: Emily Zink
10:30 Erin Beasley (MEM), Non-Profit Perspectives on "Food Security with
Sovereignty" in Cochabamba, Bolivia
10:45 Rebeka Ryvola (MEM), Accountability and Collaboration for Environmental
Disaster Response and Risk Reduction – a Rural Malawi Case
11:00 Yiting Wang (MESc), Negotiating Access: LPG Cookstove Dissemination and
Adoption in Himachal Pradesh, India
11:15
11:30
Alisa Zomer (MEM), Planning on Disaster: Urban Climate Adaptation in
Manila, Philippines
Jin Yin (MFS), Land Use, Forest Composition and Social Dependence on Forest
Products of a Traditional Miao Village: A Case Study in Guizhou, China
11:45 Yufang Gao (MESc), Elephant Ivory Trade in China: Comparing Different
Perspectives
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch and Recollections of TRI’s History with Bill Burch
12:45 – 2:15 Second Panel: Regional Focus on Africa
12:45
Coordinator: Dana Baker
Elizabeth Babalola (MEM), Akparawa and Nature: Environmental
Connections of Cross Riverian Adolescents

TRI Spring Symposium Schedule
1:00 Kelly Stoner (MESc), Improving Conservation Monitoring by Designing
Collaborative Research Programs
1:15 Acheampong Atta-Boateng (MFS), Yield and Physiological Responses of
Savanna Cowpea to Biostimulant-D-Sorbitol Foliar Application
1:30 Peter Umunay (MFS), Developing Allometric Model to Estimate Carbon
Stocks in Gilbertiodendron dewevrei Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo
1:45
2:00
Marissa Galizia (MEM), Get Mingi: Rural Kenyan Sentiments About
Electricity and Using Mobile Money to Purchase It
Alemayehu Zeleke (MESc), Human Dimensions of Climate Change:
Assessing Vulnerability of Smallholders in Ethiopia
2:15 – 2:30
2:30 – 4:00
Coffee Break
Third Panel: Regional Focus on Latin America
Coordinator: Sarah Tolbert
2:30
2:45
3:00
Molly Roske (MFS), Forest Fragmentation and Indexing Riparian
Ecosystem Health in the Dry Tropics
Beth Tellman (MESc), Land Use Change and Ecosystem Service Sheds:
Where Does Deforestation Impact Flood Mitigation in El Salvador?
Caitlin Doughty (MESc), Conservation, Development and Resilience:
Andean Ecosystem Association and the Indigenous Communities of the Vilcanota
3:15
3:30
3:45
Jessica Brooks (MESc), Failure with Potential: Community and At-Home
Rainwater Collection in Rural, Mountainous Haitian Villages
Matthew Bare (MF), Forest Restoration in the Tropical Andes: Active
Conservation in a Biodiversity Hotspot
Stephanie Stefanski (MESc), Integrating Tourism, Conservation, and
Development: Perspectives from International and Domestic Tourists in
Peninsula Valdes, Argentina
4:00 – 5:00 Reception in Marsh Rotunda hosted by John Earhart, MF ’85
TRI Staff: Michael R. Dove, Director; Dana Graef & Jeff Stoike, Program Managers
Dana Baker, Sarah Tolbert, & Emily Zink, Program Assistants