Supporting Diverse Future Leaders in Ecology & Conservation
The Center to Advance Mentored, Inquiry-Based Opportunities (CAMINO) is an inclusive community that aims to propel excellence by diverse undergraduates in ecology and conservation.
Updates from the Center
Summer 2023 internship applications are now open!
Get excited! Summer internships opportunities are posted on our internships page
and applications for a CAMINO summer internship are open! Click here to apply!
The 2022 Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium was a huge success!
Congratulations to the 2022 CAMINO cohort on a fantastic job presenting their research at our annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Click to learn more about the symposium, and see our scholars page to see each CAMINO scientist’s poster presentation or talk abstract.
Congratulations to Raquel Lozano
Congratulations to Raquel Lozano, CAMINO 2020 alum, for presenting at the 2021 California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Statewide Research Symposium. Lozano won “Special Merit” in the Life Sciences Division, and runner up for the symposium-wide “Best Video” award! For more information on CAMP and the STEM Diversity Programs visit the link or stemdiv.ucsc.edu/camp.
Sarah Wood, CAMINO 2019 alum
Sarah Wood, CAMINO 2019 alum, published a peer-viewed paper in PLOS ONE, “Accuracy and precision of citizen scientist animal counts from drone imagery.” Wood’s research was gathered across 212 days with the help of over 1,500 volunteers to count seals and sea lions in over 90,000 photographs. Check out the full paper here!
Building a Better Fieldwork Future
Building a Better Fieldwork Future (BBFF) Program at CAMINO is thrilled to announce the launch of its new website: fieldworkfuture.ucsc.edu. You can read the latest news from the BBFF Program, see some of our new Certified Trainers, access resources about harassment and assault prevention in fieldwork settings and meet the team!
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UC Santa Cruz Land Acknowledgement
The land from which we base our work is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.