{"id":28579,"date":"2022-05-03T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=28579"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:17:17","slug":"congratulations-dipto-sarkar-on-receipt-of-a-2022-research-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2022\/congratulations-dipto-sarkar-on-receipt-of-a-2022-research-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dipto Sarkar on receipt of a 2022 Research Achievement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Congratulations Dipto Sarkar on receipt of a 2022 Research Achievement Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/assistant-professor-dipto-sarkar\/\">Assistant Professor Dipto Sarkar<\/a> received a 2022 Research Achievement Award for his project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuel Briquettes: Promoting forest regeneration and people-park relationships<br>\nKibale National Park in Uganda is renowned as the primate capital of the world. Decades of conservation efforts have protected the park and biodiversity while maintaining a positive relationship with the park\u2019s adjacent communities. However, diminishing investments in conservation due to the pandemic threaten the balance. This project explores removing invasive species from the forest to make fuel briquettes. This will promote forest regeneration and provide the community with employment and an affordable, clean-burning alternative to firewood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence. Assistant Professor Dipto Sarkar received a 2022 Research Achievement Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28581,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579\/revisions\/28581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}