Events

The Role of Strategic Communications for More Effective Writing & Presentations

In today's complex world, great communication skills are fundamental—yet science communications can sometimes feel like a balancing act. Science, data, and analysis are on one side, and an audience that seeks answers

Dr. Bill Burnside is broadly interested in the economy of nature and in insights about human-environment interactions from different fields. His graduate research, at the University of New Mexico, examined how metabolic constraints affect ecological interaction rates in small ectotherms, foraging

This seminar is co-sponsored by SESYNC and the University of Maryland's Department of Biology.

Richard Levins is an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, biomathematician, and philosopher of science whose central intellectual concern has been the understanding and influencing of processes in complex

Assessing the Drivers

At least since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the relationship among ecosystem services and stress placed on both the environment and human well-being have been at the center of sustainability science. This framing has inspired a growing body of work, primarily at the

Integrating Environmental Privileges & Problems 

This seminar will use a computational social science approach to explore environmental inequality, defined broadly as the inequitable distribution of environmental privileges and problems across social groups, throughout the continental United States

BIEN & the Macroecology of Plant Diversity

A human–environment scientist and sustainability scholar, Dr. Jianguo "Jack" Liu holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability, is University Distinguished Professor of fisheries and wildlife, and also serves as director of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State

Opportunities & Challenges for Interdisciplinary Research

Dr. Matthew Bonds will present on his research, which explores relationships among ecology, infectious diseases, and economic development, with an applied focus on the role of healthcare in promoting economic growth in areas of extreme poverty.

In this seminar, Dr. Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold will present research that focuses on invasion biology and various aspects of the population biology and landscape ecology of forest insects.

Honest Models to Inform Environmental Management

A Synthesis of Knowledge

The resolution of environmental issues depends on many things—scientific knowledge, technological developments, economic incentives, etc.—but perhaps most importantly, it depends on the public’s awareness, interest, and capacity to act.

What are the ingredients for

Biological anthropology is the study of the origins and maintenance of human diversity; the axis of diversity that defines his research interests is the stunning variation across populations and through time in the fundamental quantities of demography: age-specific mortality and fertility rates. Two

This talk will report on ongoing studies at three sites in the Brazilian Amazon where Dr. Emilio Moran has been working on the three dimensions of land use, population, and environment for the past 16 years. Migration flows have been a powerful force over this time, as well as the internal dynamics

There are widespread concerns that current trends in population and resource-use are unsustainable, but the possibilities of an overshoot and collapse remain unclear and controversial. Collapses have occurred frequently in the past five thousand years, and are often followed by centuries of