Final Reporting Workshop - Posters

Please bring the palm research posters you have presented at meetings over the past (couple of) year(s) so we can hang them during the workshop for general information about what is going on in the various WPs of the project.

Altamirano Balslev Valencia - poster 2012

Kristiansen et al - poster 2010

Cevallos Valencia - Poster 2012

De la Torre - poster 2012

Final Reporting Workshop - List of Participants

Participating
Aarhus (Henrik Balslev, Dennis Pedersen)
Quito (Renato Valencia, Roberto Carillo, Hugo Navarette, Lucia de la Torre, Rommel Montufar)
Bogota (Gloria Galeano, Rodrigo Bernal)
Madrid ( Manuel Macia)
Bonn (Max Weigend, Grischa Brokamp)
La Paz (Monica Moraes, Camila de Urioste)
Kew (Lauren Gardener)
Copenhagen (Helle Munk Ravnborg)
Montpellier (Fabien Anthelme)

Not participating
Bill Baker
Jean-Christophe Pintaud
Betty Millan

Final Reporting Workshop - Program

22-27 OCTOBER 2012

MONDAY 22 October

09-12 Public Mini-symposium at PUCE, Departamento de Biología, with presentation (in Spanish) of PALMS results by PALMS researchers. Participation of Palms Local Advisory Committee for Ecuador

Presentations:

• Henrik Balslev, PALMS coordinator: The Palms project
• Jose Manuel Barreiro, WP-2. Palm Genetics
• Rodrigo Bernal, WP-5: Management of palms as NTFP
• Maximilian Weigend/Grischa Brokamp, WP-4: Trade with palm products
• Renato Valencia, WP-7: Policies that influence palm use, management and trade

12-13 Closed meeting at PUCE with the Local Advisory Committee for comments on project progress etc.

13-15 Lunch with Local Advisory Committee, at PUCE

15-17 Transfer to Mindo – Casa de Piedra - for those who want a fieldtrip.

17-onwards: free time in Mindo for walks etc.

TUESDAY 23 OCTOBER

Full day excursion to the remanants of the Chocó forest near Santo Domingo, including La Perla, Tinalandia, and maybe others

WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER

9-12 Excursion to Pedro Vicente Maldonado to see exploitation of Wettinia quinaria and Iriartea deltoidea, incuding a visit to the local office of the Ministry of Agriculture to hear about their control of NTFPs

12-13 Lunch in Casa de Piedra

13-onwards – time to walk on the trails near Casa de Piedra and elsewhere in the Mindo area. Or stay at the hotel to prepare workshop and receive participants who did not come on the fieldtrip.

THURSDAY 25 – FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER

Full day workshop on deliverables to PALMS month 56 and 60

SATURDAY 27

9-12 Return to Quito, with a stopover for palm watching

Data Evaluation Workshop - List of participants

The following people have confirmed their attendance (until July 11, 2011)

WP1
Henrik Balslev
Helle Munk Ravnborg
Anders S. Barfod
Jonas Jensen (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
Emma Line Tagø (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
Line Bech Thostrup (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
Irene Lykke (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)

WP2
Jean-Christophe Pintaud
Barreiro José Manuel (Ph D Student)

WP3

Manuel Macía
Rodrigo Cámara (Ph D Student)
Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana (Ph D Student)
Rainer W. Bussmann

WP4

Grischa Brokamp
Natalia Valderrama (Bogotá only)

WP5

Rodrigo Bernal
Gloria Galeano
Néstor García (Ph D Student)
Martha Isabel Vallejo (Ph D Student)
Carolina Isaza (Ph D Student)
Jaime Navarro (Ph D Student)
María José Sanín (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
Luis Alberto Núñez (Ph D Student)
Laura Mesa (M Sc Student)
Eva Ledezma (M Sc Student)
Claudia Torres (M Sc Student)
Yisela Figueroa (Project assistant)

WP6
Renato Valencia
Carolina Altamirano (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)

WP7
Bill Baker
Alexandre Theys

WP8
Mónica Moraes (Bogotá only)

OTHERS
Betty Millán
Héctor Aponte Ubillus (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
Manuel Marín Bravo (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)
José Olivera (Ph D Student) - (Leticia only)

Local Advisory Committee (Bogotá only)

Dr. Carlos Rodríguez, Director Tropenbos Colombia
Dra. María Cristina Peñuela, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Leticia Campus
Dr. Brigitte LG Baptiste, Director, Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá
Dr. Nicolás Castaño, Instituto de Investigaciones Amazónicas Sinchi
Dr. Inés Cavelier, Patrimonio Natural, Fondo para la Biodiversidad y Áreas Protegidas, Bogotá.