In 2017, acts of hate and violence unfolded on the campus of a peer institution, the University of Virginia. 2020 was a year of reckoning with systemic racism in academic institutions and broader communities across the country. Our university’s leadership…
This year at the Symposium on Integrative Conservation (SIC), Ryan received the J. Peter Brosius Integrative Conservation Research Award, which reflects and celebrates outstanding integrative socio-ecological research. Students at all stages of the program are eligible to submit a manuscript,…
Congratulations, Kristen, on another research award! The Rufford Grant will help pay for field technicians, equipment, and time in Mexico to continue her research onconservation strategies for bats and agaves.
Understanding the past, present, and future fate of forests on Georgia’s barrier islands is motivating a lot of work in our lab these days…. Together with Warnell faculty colleagues Nate Nibbelink and Clint Moore, we received 4 years of funding…
Congrats again to Dessa Dunn! Her research project won the best Watershed-related CURO project this year! She will be recognized at the GreenFest Environmental Awards Ceremony on April 15, 2016.
Liz Guinessey, 3rd year ICON-Ecology PhD student, just received a Fulbright Fellowship to support her innovative dissertation research, investigating ecological and social dimensions of mangrove restoration, Blue Carbon markets, and payments for ecosystem services. Well-deserved, Liz! Congratulations!!!
Dessa has been working with Laura Keys and me on her CURO (Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities) project, looking at ecosystem services, restoration, and goats in campus forest fragments. And her intense efforts were rewarded: she was awarded the Best…
Based on our long-standing collaboration in Kenya, Trenton and I developed a dynamic hillslope model to explore the effects of land use decisions and future climate variabiity on vegetation in the semi-arid landscapes of Laikipia, Kenya. We look forward to…
King, E., Cavender-Bares, J., Balvanera, P., Mwampamba, T. H., & Polasky, S. (2015). Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities. Ecology and Society, 20(3). doi: 10.5751/ES-07822-200325 (open access) This paper, just published in Ecology…
Keeping with our theme of extreme lab diversity — students’ research topics include African pastoralist social-ecological systems, coastal biogeochemistry, and bat pollination ecology in Mexico — we’re please do welcome Hannah, who is an archaeologist with particular interest in paleoethnobotany!…