PSU has a special guest speaker this week, Dr. Elizabeth King, from the University of Georgia.
She will be presenting her talk: Learning from Kenya: A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability
Thursday, February 12, 2015 – 4:00 pm,
Urban Center Building, room 204,
Free and open to the public
Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn about her amazing interdisciplinary research and international experiences!
Cheers,
Sarah
Ecosystem Services Seminar | Learning from Kenya: A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on Restoration, Ecosystem Services, and Sustainability
Thursday, February 12, 2015 – 4:00pm
Dr. Elizabeth King
Restoration Ecologist
When: Thursday, Feb. 12 | 4-5 p.m.
Where: Urban Center Building, room 204
Free and open to the public
Lizzie King is a restoration ecologist by training, and has spent much of the last 20 years working or living in the drylands of Kenya. She received her Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of California, Davis, then was a postdoctoral associate and lecturer at Princeton University from 2006 to 2012. In 2012, she joined the faculty at the University of Georgia, with joint appointment in the Odum School of Ecology and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. She is also core faculty member of UGA’s Center for Integrative Conservation Research, which offers an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Integrative Conservation. Her ongoing research on pastoralist system dynamics bridges hydrology, ecology, anthropology, and political science. More recently, her research addresses the challenge of accounting for divergent stakeholder perceptions and values associated with ecosystem services. She also studies spatial self-organization and trophic interactions in the context of salt marsh restoration.
Join the doctoral students from PSU’s National Science Foundation IGERT program for a free seminar series on the research and management of ecosystem services. Experts from across the country will present on a broad array of topics ranging from cultural and biophysical research to management practices for ecosystem services.