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silViA Ricci
Research fellow
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Born in Firenze in 1970, she is a zoologist and
a public science writer. she got a degree in
natural sciences in 1995 at the university of
Florence and a Ph.d. with a research thesis
on population dynamics and trophic ecology
of desert rodents in 2003 at the university of
sydney, Australia. since 2004 she has been
working for different publishing houses, writing
books and articles of scientific popularization.
since 2006 she worked as scientific
consultant, environmental educator, tutor
of formative courses and translator. From
2008-2009 she collaborated with Trento Museum studying the new species
of elephant-shrew. her research interests include population dynamics and
trophic ecology of small mammals, habitat use and fauna surveys. since 2010,
she has been also managing Associazione Mazingira, an organization established
within the Trento Museum itself to conduct community-based projects
in the area of the udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania.
eMAnuel h. MARTin
Research fellow
Born in Rombo in 1977, he is a Tanzanian
zoologist with a degree in wildlife management
obtained at the sokoine university of
Agriculture (suA), Tanzania (2002), and Master
in Management of Protected Areas obtained
at the university of Klagenfurt, Austria
(2009). during 2003 - 2007, he worked
as a conservation officer at the Mokolodi
nature Reserve in Botswana, gaining wide
experience in the field of biodiversity monitoring
and protected area management. he
was also extensively involved with training
park personnel on monitoring capacity. in 2009 he was recruited as full-time
research collaborator by Trento Museum to cover the position of site Manager
of the newly established TeAM project (Tropical ecology, Assessment and
Monitoring), managed by conservation international, funded by the Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation, and coordinated in the udzungwa Mountains
by Trento Museum. since February 2012 he has enrolled into a Phd program
with suA whereby his studies is focusing on the ecology of forest mammal
community.
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