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Dr. Fausto Sarmiento
A Year of Titles: Dr. Fausto Sarmiento receives Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award

Fausto O. Sarmiento, professor of mountain science and director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, at the Department of Geography of the University of Georgia, has received a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award to Austria, Japan and Chile. Sarmiento will research and lecture at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the World Heritage Studies UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and…

Andean Flanks: Paleoecology, Critical Biogeography and Political Ecology of the Changing Climates of Neotropical Mountain Forests
Book grapples with Andean cloud forests’ socioecological classification

Within a transdisciplinary framework, the Andean cloud forest belt was appraised and recommended into a new ecoregion of its own: the Andean Flanks. A team of Franklin College faculty in the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory has produced a book, published in Spanish, by the Institute for Sustainable Development of Cloud Forest Research (INDES_CES) and the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza of Amazonas (UNTRM) in Peru. Authors…
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