Tag: CHANS

Senior Postdoc Emily Klein Gives Talk on Sustainable Ocean Management Modeling at UMass Dartmouth

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 […]

New Paper: “New Perspectives on the Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS)”

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, […]

Faculty Associates Kaufman, Gopal Co-Author Paper on Using Big Data for Food, Energy & Water System Sustainability

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 […]

Faculty Research Fellow Les Kaufman Attends Annual Pew Marine Fellows Meeting

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 […]