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In Great Lakes Now

February 6, 2024

Study calls for EPA to include human well-being in Great Lakes restoration program | Great Lakes NowHistorically restoration work focused on measurable ecological outcomes. Researchers make the case to codify human well-being into the process.

In Planet Detroit

March 29, 2022

Study questions reporting, transparency in popular federal Great Lakes restoration program; Detroit River cleanup lagsReading Time: 5 minutes In a January report, scientific researchers spotlight reporting limitations in the multi-billion dollar federal Great Lakes restoration program that launched with fanfare in 2010. The program’s mission is to restore the Great Lakes to a semblance of what they were before the industrial era that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. The program, officially known ...

Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)SER advances the science, practice, and policy of ecological restoration to sustain biodiversity, improve resilience in a changing climate, and re-establish an ecologically healthy relationship between nature and culture.

IERQC Archived Webinars: September 2021

September 25, 2021

Check out this presentation I did for The Interagency Ecological Restoration Quality Committee (IERQC) monthly webinar series. This presentation features results from my Bailey Conservation Fellowship research on the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

Movimientos Sociales. Sociedad, Política y Mercados en la Era Global

August 27, 2019

I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales in Mexico City about my postdoctoral study, as a Fulbright-Garcia Robles U.S. Scholar, on carbon accounting in Mexican communities with forestry enterprises. I evaluated carbon sequestration using a socio-ecological systems lens to consider out-migration as a type of carbon leakage that should be considered for carbon payments. Thanks Dr. Aguilar for inviting me to join the panel!

Captura de carbono en sistemas socio-ambientales: el costo de abandonar la autosuficiencia

April 29, 2019

Check out the results from my postdoctoral studies at the Insituto de Investigaciones Sociales in Mexico City. I speak about the impacts of climate change and changing local economies on Ejidos and Comunidades Agrarias. Additionally, globalization and changing local lifestyles are leading to higher per-capita emissions which challenge mitigation goals of carbon sequestration projects.