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.
CHANS Lab secures Puget Sound Institute grant with Ecotrust
Kai Chan, Sarah Klain, and Mollie Chapman will be partnering with Ecotrust on a Puget Sound Institute grant to study cultural ecosystem services.
New Publication in PLOS ONE
Sea Otters in rocky intertidal ecosystems are the topic of the article by Gerald, Becca, Kai and other collaborators that came out this week. pdf
Industry thought they smelled something fishy
Sarah Klain reflects on her use of social media with unintended consequences for her research as part of the SciFund Challenge outreach class.
Kai attends the GYA’s General Assembly in Germany
Kai was among several Canadians at the Global Young Academy‘s General Assembly in Halle, Germany, contemplating how GYA could best serve young scientists and society.