DeFries podcast
Ruth DeFries was interviewed on Eat this Podcast titled “How to Measure what Farms Produce” by Jeremy Cherfas.
DeFries The Guardian
The Guardian interviews Ruth DeFries in an article on evidence-based answers to the question of whether we should be optimistic about the future
Megan Cattau paper
Lab member Megan Cattau co-authors paper in Conservation Biology assessing adherence of payment for ecosystem services projects to ecological principles.
Essayas Ayana blog
NatureNet post doc Essayas Ayana blogs about field testing drones to measure water quality in the Nature Conservancy’s Taylor Farm Preserve in Nassawango River basin in Maryland
Miriam Marlier, postdoc in the lab, blogs on the fire season in Indonesia
Dr. Miriam Marlier co-authored a blog for the Union of Concerned Scientists on the devastating haze in Southeast Asia from fires in Indonesia
Trishna Dutta’s paper on landscape connectivity in central India covered in the press
Dr. Trishna Dutta, post doc in the lab and NatureNet fellow with The Nature Conservancy, published a paper in Regional Environmental Change on connectivity between protected areas for tiger movement. The paper was covered in the Times of India.
Dr. Krithi K. Karanth has been selected by The World Economic Forum as a 2015 Young Global Leader
Dr. Krithi K. Karanth, a former post-doctoral research scientist in the DeFries Lab, has been selected by The World Economic Forum (WEF) as a 2015 Young Global Leader (YGL). This prestigious honor recognizes her as one of the 187 distinguished leaders below the age of 40 from around the world. Krithi has been working to understand and find solutions to human-wildlife conflicts. Her blog featured by the WEF summarises the difficulties we face and need for innovation to address these challenges: blog link Krithi was also featured by the BBC World Service Outlook podcast. You can hear the program here (March 17th, 2015, starting 9:26 into program)
Ruth DeFries wrote a piece for the New York Times column Dot Earth
Ruth DeFries wrote a piece for the New York Times column Dot Earth recently. Please click to read the article HERE
Ruth DeFries awarded the AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award for 2015
Ruth DeFries has been awarded one of the American Association of Geographers highest honors, the AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award for 2015. She is being recognized for the contributions that she has made to our understanding of the patterns and impacts of anthropogenic landscape change, and for her ability to link that research to larger international policy discussions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation. Read more HERE
Megan Cattau’s research was covered recently on the Mongabay.com environmental news site
DeFries’ Lab Ph.D. student Megan Cattau‘s research was covered recently on the Mongabay.com environmental news site. A study was led by Megan and was carried out in collaboration with The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project (OuTrop) and Center for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Tropical Peatlands (CIMTROP). According to its results, the latest estimate for Kalimantan’s current orangutan population is between 1,500 and 1,700 as of 2009, a decline from as many as 4,100 individuals in 1995. In other words, the population dropped by more than half in just 14 years. Read more HERE
