2024 ForestGEO Analytical Workshops: Cameroon

The final mini-workshop of our 2024 Analytical Workshops concluded this week in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Read on to get an inside look at the workshop.

As explained in our previous blog post, 2024 ForestGEO Analytical Workshops: Overcoming Obstacles, the ForestGEO Analytical Workshop was broken up into four mini-workshops this year. The final workshop concluded just last week. Hosted in Yaoundé, Cameroon at the Congo Basin Institute, three mentors led eight participants through nine days of intensive project development and analysis. Over the course of the workshop, mentors had one-on-one sessions with participants to help them advance their projects, each of them working towards the ultimate goal of publishing individual manuscripts. Mentors provided guidance and feedback about project development and revision, data analysis, statistics, and coding. The topic of participants’ projects ranged from tree/plant communities to species distribution to animals and habitat preferences.

The intensive workdays were enriched with lectures from Gilles Daubi, a research associate at the Institute of Research for Development, and Bonaventure Sonké, a botanist and professor at the University of Yaoundé, both of whom discussed their current and future research projects in Cameroon. The group also had the opportunity to spend a well-deserved break exploring the Mvog-Betsi Botanical Zoological Garden, a reserve for animals that have been abandoned or trafficked.  

Thank you to our mentors, participants, and ForestGEO team and collaborators for their flexibility and hard work in making this workshop a success! We look forward to the return of our regular Analytical Workshop next summer.