On February 6th, The Integrative Conservation (ICON) Ph.D. program held its second Symposium on Integrative Conservation. Kristen talked about her planned work on bat conservation and their roles as pollinators in agave plantations. Ryan presented his research in Kenya that…
Through an NCEAS-sponsored working group, we have proposed a framework for evaluating tradeoffs in ecosystem services, which seeks to illustrate how trade-offs experienced by different stakeholder groups can vary depending on divergent values held by those groups. The framework is…
Kaye-Zwiebel, E. and E. King. 2014. Kenyan pastoralist societies in transition: varying perceptions of the value of ecosystem services. Ecology and Society 19(3): 17. The product of collaboration between Lizzie and Eva while she was a PhD student at Princeton,…
Ryan and Liz were rocking this summer with their research, and the lab gains even more momentum with the arrival of new graduate students Kristen Lear and Rachel Hughes, both through the Warnell School of Forestry.
At this year’s meeting (Aug 5-9) in Minneapolis, the Rangeland Ecology Section has lots to offer. On Monday, 11:45 to 1:30, join us for lunch, meet and socialize with our awesome members, and help shape the concepts for future Symposia.…
This summer was anything but ordinary. We got our research camp set up and looking official, with an actual honest to goodness building! Ryan did the longest stint out there, and covered a tremendous amount of ground–both literally and figuratively.…
Laura German (UGA Anthropology) and I received a NSF Coupled Human-Natural Systems Exploratory Grant to support vulnerability analysis of pastoralist systems in transition in Kenya. Long-time colleague Trenton Franz (who will join the faculty at University of Nebraska in Fall…
Warnell professor John Carroll is moving on to head the Natural Resources department at University of Nebraska, which is great for him but sad for me because I was really enjoying having such a cool Africa-oriented colleague in Warnell. However,…
In Collaboration with Nate Nibbelink, Clint Moore, and Bob Cooper (UGA Warnell), David Kaplan (UF), and all sorts of folks and agencies at the Georgia Coast, we are now moving forward with an interesting research initiative that focuses on the scale…