Upcoming events

The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) will host a webinar on Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern U.S., on Thursday, 21 May 2020, 2pm-3pm Eastern Time.

Hear from Ken Bagstad (USGS), Katie Warnell (Duke University), Charles Rhodes (TBD Economics), and Marc Russell (US EPA) about a new publication that details the first effort to develop Ecosystem Accounts for the U.S. at a broad scale. The team will describe the potential for U.S. ecosystem accounting and explain their pilot accounts for a 10-state region in the Southeast. The pilot accounts address air quality, water quality, biodiversity, carbon storage, recreation, and pollination for selected years from 2001 to 2015. [Read more…] about NESP Webinar: Piloting Ecosystem Accounts for the Southeastern U.S.

On 22 May 2020 (coming Friday) we celebrate the Interational Day for Biological Diversity, kicking off the World Biodiversity Week. The International Day for Biological Diversity 2020 has the theme ‘Our Solutions are in Nature’ and for the first time will be celebrated through an online-only campaign.

What is happening this week?

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The 2020 ALTER-Net Summer School will take place in Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France, 18 – 28 August 2020

Open to graduate and post-graduate scientists (as well as professionals in related fields), the ALTER-Net Summer School provides an innovative atmosphere for considering and resolving the sustainability challenges that society is currently facing.

The ALTER-Net summer school focuses on the challenge of biodiversity conservation taking a systemic perspective. In this course, we explore drivers of change, and the role of ecological knowledge and social science approaches, including environmental psychology, for conservation. [Read more…] about The ALTER-Net Summer School