United for the tropics

The multicultural cohort enjoys the Daintree

Trans-disciplinary work: a solution for tropical problems? The newly created Graduate Tropical Network for Tropical Research sure thinks so and is taking the first steps to doing so by uniting promising doctoral students across Australia´s most important universities to foster a new generation of researchers collaborating  for a common cause: to improve research in the tropics that helps solve environmental and social problems. 

Last week caught me at Trinity Beach in the outskirts of Cairns, sharing with a group of very talented researchers from a variety of disciplines, antrhopology, archeology, biology, economy, ecology, conservation, agriculture and biotechnology. The result: a new outlook on how to solve problems by uniting skills and taking new approaches. The future will hopefully see this network expand and will surely constitute a source of new ideas to solve real problems. It was encouraging to see people unite, open and believe in each other´s potential for creation. Collaboration and networking made possible by a community that slowly turns global, is truly making a change in how we perceive and deal with the issues facing our world today. The heroes of tomorrow are in the making, just wait and see them shine. 

KC remembers her days as a tour guide at  the
Tortuguero mangroves

The multicultural group mingles

Panelists give advise on life beyond PhD

Uganda, Australia and Colombia!