Tag: CHANS
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, led a team of four co-authors on the concluding chapter of a new book on coral reef restoration. The book, titled Active Coral Restoration: Techniques for a Changing Planet, was edited […]
Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently gave a talk for UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science & Technology weekly seminar series. In her talk, Klein explained her research on sustainable ocean management for balancing ecological and human well-being goals. Specifically, she […]
Research on coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) seeks to holistically understand how social, cultural, economic, and political systems are intricately connected to natural systems. Through an interdisciplinary approach blending natural and social sciences, this research can play a key role in decision-making about current and future challenges at the intersection of people and nature, […]
Prof. Suchi Gopal and Prof. Les Kaufman, Faculty Associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-authored a new paper on the application of big data science to improve food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) sustainability. In the paper, published in the journal Frontiers in Big Data, the authors present a […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended the annual meeting of the Pew Marine Fellows in Hilo, Hawaii. At the meeting, Prof. Kaufman presented on the progress made by the Coral Restoration Consortium, a NOAA-led […]
Les Kaufman, a Professor in the Department of Biology and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored three related papers exploring fish food webs in systems undergoing rapid change: coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific, small lakes and reservoirs in Brazil, and large lakes […]