Meghna Agarwala’s paper on central India forests
Lab member Meghna Agarwala’s paper published in Regional Environmental Change on “Changes in Dry Tropical Forests in Central India with Human Use“
Lab member Meghna Agarwala’s paper published in Regional Environmental Change on “Changes in Dry Tropical Forests in Central India with Human Use“
Lab member Trishna Dutta blogs about landscape connectivity for tigers in central India based on her paper recently published in Regional Environmental Change.
Undergraduate students blog about field trip to the Catskills Watershed. Students in Ruth DeFries’ class on Social-Ecological Systems for Sustainable Development learned firsthand about the New York City’s water supply.
Ruth DeFries was interviewed on Eat this Podcast titled “How to Measure what Farms Produce” by Jeremy Cherfas.
The Guardian interviews Ruth DeFries in an article on evidence-based answers to the question of whether we should be optimistic about the future
Lab member Megan Cattau co-authors paper in Conservation Biology assessing adherence of payment for ecosystem services projects to ecological principles.
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
Dr. Miriam Marlier co-authored a blog for the Union of Concerned Scientists on the devastating haze in Southeast Asia from fires in Indonesia
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, 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)