My research investigates the ecology of
anthropogenic landscapes
and their changes at local to global scales. Current work in my
lab has three main foci:
human transformation of the biosphere (anthromes,
anthroecology), tools for global synthesis of local knowledge of
landscape change (GLOBE), and
inexpensive
tools for measuring and managing ecological
change across anthropogenic landscapes (Ecosynth,
Anthropogenic Ecotope Mapping). All of these come
together in my main goal: informing sustainable stewardship of
the biosphere in the
Anthropocene.
My earlier work investigated
long-term ecological changes
across
China's village landscapes. I teach courses in environmental
science and landscape ecology at UMBC, and I've taught ecology
at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. I am
currently a member of the
Anthropocene Working Group,
a Fellow of the Global Land Programme,
and
Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute.. My first book,
Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction, was
published in 2018.
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Keywords: landscape ecology,
biogeochemistry, ecosystem management, resource management, sustainable
agriculture, traditional agriculture, agroecosystems, agroecology, village-scale
ecosystems, anthropogenic ecosystems, anthropogenic landscapes, human dominated
landscapes, ecological history, agricultural history, ecotope, human ecology,
China, observational uncertainty analysis, data quality, integration, ecological
synthesis.
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