Kai to speak on IPBES panel in DC
On November 14th Kai will be speaking on a panel coordinated by United Nations Environment Program and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and hosted by the French Embassy in Washington DC.
CHANS lab well represented at North Pacific Marine Science meeting
Lab members provide notable contributions at international oceanographic conference.
New blog post: Arm-chair environmentalism, science communication, and why I hate Twitter
Jordan Tam recounts his neophyte experiences in the Twitterverse in his latest blog post Arm-chair environmentalism, science communication, and why I hate Twitter
Article on intangible benefits of nature published in prestigious annual review journal
Jordan Tam, Sarah Klain, Jordan Levine and Kai Chan co-authored a publication in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources: Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being. Here’s some press about it!
Kai’s blog post on Leopold 3.0: SNAP and Luc Hoffman Institute
2 SNAPpy new ways to skirt the “valley of death” and turn knowledge to action: Kai’s Leopold 3.0 blog post
Sally Otto donates $100,000 to BRITE internship program
Zoology prof Sally Otto donates MacArthur ‘genius’ grant to biodiversity internship training program, started and run by Kai. Read more
Mollie Chapman attended Workshop on Cultural Ecosystem Services in Germany
Mollie Chapman participated in the Joint HZG/ICES/LOICZ Workshop: Mapping Cultural Dimensions of Ecosystem Services in Geesthacht, Germany from the 17-21st of June, 2013. See the full workshop report and participant presentations here. Read the Chan’s Lab View Blog Post here.
Kai and colleagues publish a new paper on “Ecosystem services and ethics”
Coming out of a workshop in Vilm, Germany: Jax, K., D. N. Barton, K. M. A. Chan, et al. (2013). “Ecosystem services and ethics.” Ecological Economics 93(0): 260-268. url
Kai to attend IPBES conceptual framework workshop in Cape Town, Aug 25-26
Kai will be one of 25 experts across the world to attend the conceptual framework workshop of the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Cape Town, South Africa, August 25-26 2013.