University of Connecticut
Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 4:00pm (EST)
Elena Bennett
Professor and Canada Research Chair – Sustainability Science
McGill University
"Building a Better Anthropocene by Understanding Relationships Between People and Nature"
Please join us for an in-person Teale lecture, on Thursday, November 2 at 4:00pm in the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center on the UConn Storrs campus.
Adapted from Elena’s website (http://bennettlab.weebly.com/):
Dr. Bennett’s research centers around questions about ecosystem services, the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. Humanity has always depended on the services provided by ecosystems, including products such as food, freshwater, and fiber, (provisioning ecosystem services, ES), non-material benefits such as places for recreation and inspiration (cultural ES) and benefits obtained by regulation of ecosystem processes, such as flood control and climate regulation (regulating ES). A growing body of evidence indicates that most ecosystem management, which attempts to maximize one ecosystem service (ES) at a time, actually makes ecosystems vulnerable to substantial declines in other services or to increased likelihood of nonlinear, surprising changes in the provision of services. For this reason, recent studies have called for increased attention to managing multiple ES together. However, effective management of multiple ES is impeded by inadequate understanding of the interactions among ES and the slowly changing variables that appear to regulate these interactions.
Dr. Bennett attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where she studied Biology and Environmental Studies. She earned her MSc in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin in 1999, and her PhD in Limnology and Marine Sciences in 2002. As a postdoc, she helped coordinate the Scenarios Working Group for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Elena started working at McGill in 2005.
Although the talk will be in-person, it is also available to watch (live) on WebEX. The live stream link is on the Teale Series web page: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
This event is free and open to the public. If you need accommodation to access or participate, please contact CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu
For more information, contact: Dr. Erin Kuprewicz at CSMNHinfo@uconn.edu