Every Friday during the semester, the Tropical Environmental Change Research Group (TEC) holds a lunchtime meeting in which the wide diaspora of physical geographers in the department (faculty, postdocs and grad students) show up to (a.) listen to the latest in TEC-themed investigations, and/or (b.) see what everyone else packs (or tah-pows in the local lingo) for lunch. It's always a fun gathering in which serious research is discussed in an informal, supportive atmosphere.