IoE Distinguished Lecturer Series - "Towards Sustaining Natural Habitats on Private Lands"
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Speakers: Dr. Andrew Hansen
Location: https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=mc8f4bee97078de59c19d69d4656948f4
Dr. Andrew Hansen, a Professor in the MSU Department of Ecology, will deliver “Towards Sustaining Natural Habitats on Private Lands” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, via WebEx. This talk will explore the socioecological drivers of habitat loss on private lands and scientific analyses to support prioritizing conservation for the remaining natural habitats. Co-authors on this project include Katrina Mullan (UM), Scott Powell (MSU), and Dave Theobald (Conservation Planning Technologies). The event is free and open to the public as part of the Montana Institute on Ecosystems’ Distinguished Lecturer Series.
Dr. Hansen is the Director of the Landscape Biodiversity Lab at Montana State University. He teaches macroecology to undergraduates and landscape ecology to graduate students. His research focuses on interactions among biodiversity, climate change, and land use, with an emphasis on large landscape management and protected areas. He received a Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was on the faculty of Oregon State University, where Dr. Hansen studied ecological approaches to forestry at stand and landscape levels. His current research at Montana State University focuses on the evaluation of ecological integrity of large wildland ecosystems through application of remotely sensed and ancillary data. He was a principle participant in the design of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) site in the Northern Rockies. Dr. Hansen organized the NASA-funded workshop, “Sustaining Wildland Ecosystems through Monitoring and Communication to Stakeholders”, which developed the Wildland Health Index for monitoring ecosystems. He was the Ecological Impacts Foundational Science Team Lead for the North Central Climate Sciences Center for a three year period. He has been funded by NASA Earth Sciences for more than 25 years to develop remote sensing products to enable decision support on ecological management and conservation by resource managers. These projects included applications in or across the US, North America, Central America, East Africa, China, and Brazil. He currently has two projects with the United Nations Development Program to provide decision support to countries in the humid tropics regarding the 2020 Convention on Biodiversity targets and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Hansen has published widely on these topics and is the lead editor of the recent book, “Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management.
Join Distinguished Lecturer Series online via WebEx:
Link: https://montana.webex.com/montana/j.php?MTID=mc8f4bee97078de59c19d69d4656948f4
Meeting number: 120 804 6351
Password: 6ufBxmmyS57
Speaker(s):
Dr. Andrew Hansen
Professor, Montana State University
Dr. Andrew Hansen is a Professor in the Ecology Department and Director of the Landscape Biodiversity Lab at Montana State University. He teaches macroecology to undergraduates and landscape ecology to graduate students. His research focuses on interactions among biodiversity, climate change, and land use, with an emphasis on large landscape management and protected areas. He received a Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was on the faculty of Oregon State University, where Dr. Hansen studied ecological approaches to forestry at stand and landscape levels.
His current research at Montana State University focuses on the evaluation of ecological integrity of large wildland ecosystems through application of remotely sensed and ancillary data. He was a principle participant in the design of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) site in the Northern Rockies. Dr. Hansen organized the NASA-funded workshop, “Sustaining Wildland Ecosystems through Monitoring and Communication to Stakeholders”, which developed the Wildland Health Index for monitoring ecosystems. He was the Ecological Impacts Foundational Science Team Lead for the North Central Climate Sciences Center for a three year period.
He has been funded by NASA Earth Sciences for more than 25 years to develop remote sensing products to enable decision support on ecological management and conservation by resource managers. These projects included applications in or across the US, North America, Central America, East Africa, China, and Brazil. He currently has two projects with the United Nations Development Program to provide decision support to countries in the humid tropics regarding the 2020 Convention on Biodiversity targets and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Hansen has published widely on these topics and is the lead editor of the recent book, “Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management.