Cary Institute’s Scientific Seminar Series provides a forum for engaging with researchers from around the world. Lectures are geared toward an academic audience, with a focus on current scientific advances as they relate to ecosystem science, environmental management, and science education. This year’s lectures will be presented virtually, and include moderated Q&A. Lectures are held on Thursdays at 11AM EDT and are free and open to all. Registration is required to access the Zoom credentials.
This fall, a subset of our scientific seminars will focus on ecosystem resilience. Ecosystem or ecological resilience is often used as a critical goal for management, conservation, and governance actions. It is also put forth as a positive or beneficial trait of ‘natural’ systems. However, despite the value often assigned to resilience, the term has different definitions and component measurements across the ecological literature. At a moment when climate change threatens people and ecological systems, and when society is ‘awakening’ to systemic racism and other forms of oppression that pervade the practice and impacts of science, we felt the time was right to explore ecosystem resilience.
We are delighted to host a virtual seminar series that: (1) focuses on an important and under-examined ecological issue, (2) highlights the growing diversity of the ecological community and challenges us to consider how to support and accelerate this trajectory, and (3) honors the scientific – conceptual, empirical, and applied – work of some emerging leaders in the field.
Oct 1* Alix Contosta Oct 8* Juan Rocha Oct 15* Karletta Chief Oct 22* Alex Moulton Oct 29 Grayson Badgley Nov 5 Suzanne Pierre Nov 12 Zbigniew Grabowski, Critical Ecology: Defining sociophsyical drivers of "Anthropogenic" ecological change Nov 19 Gerardo Suzan and Christopher Stephens Dec 3 Amanda Phillips de Lucas Dec 10* Nyeema Harris Dec 17* Fushcia-Ann Hoover
