Advisory Board and Editors Coupled Natural & Human Systems
Hannah S Mumby
Dr. Hannah Mumby is Assistant Professor within the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on behavioural ecology, applications of animal and human behaviour to conservation and the conservation of large mammals. Dr. Mumby does interdisciplinary work using both natural and social science approaches to conservation science.
Darren Norris
Lecturer at the Federal University of Amapá, Brazil. My research interests are broad and are currently focused on the conservation of biodiversity and traditional livelihoods around waterways that traverse political (national and international), cultural and ecological boundaries. I am particularly interested in inter-disciplinary approaches, comprising population and community ecology, population biology, landscape and spatial statistics.
Timothy O. Randhir
Dr. Timothy O. Randhir is a Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Randhir received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1995 and did post-doctoral work at Purdue University before joining the University of Massachusetts as a faculty member. He has a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Sciences from Annamalai University and a Master's degree in Agricultural Economics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Dr. Randhir is a consultant to the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the American Association of Advancement of Sciences, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Agriculture. In addition, he serves as Editor of three international journals in earth systems, climate change, watershed science, ecological economics, and computational environmental sciences. His publications include a book on Watershed Management, several book chapters, more than 110 refereed articles in top international journals, and several professional conference presentations. His research extends worldwide, including Honduras, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, eSwatini, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mongolia, Kirghizstan, Uganda, Turkey, Iran, Russia, China, India, and Indonesia. He is the President of the Southern New England Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.
Maria J Santos
Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences, Utrecht University.
My research combines field methods, GIS, remote sensing, statistical modeling, historical archival research, and conservation biology, history, and planning. I focus on four research areas:
* Assessing interaction and feedback mechanisms of social-ecological systems in space and time
* Identifying global change drivers through conservation histories and relate them to changes and fluxes in species and ecosystems, land use policy, and environmental governance
* Investigating how land use and climate changes affect spatial and temporal dynamics of species and habitat at multiple scales
* Use of state of the art remote sensing, GIS and quantitative analysis to answer interdisciplinary research questions
Andrew A Shantz
I am a marine ecologist, utilizing principles from community and physiological ecology to understand the impacts of global change on marine ecosystems.
David I Stern
David Stern is a professor in the Crawford School of Policy at The Australian National University and Director of the International and Development Economics Program. He is an energy and environmental economist, whose research focuses on the role of energy in growth and development and environmental impacts including climate change. He is also interested in research assessment. David is currently the chief investigator for an ARC Discovery Project on "Energy Efficiency Innovation, Diffusion and the Rebound Effect" and is one of six theme leaders for a UK Department for International Development funded project on electricity and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He was a lead author for the chapter on Drivers, Trends, and Mitigation in Working Group III’s contribution to the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2016. He is an associate editor of Ecological Economics and on the editorial boards of Nature Energy and Open Economics and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Cheng Sun
The Professor of global environmental change, Beijing Normal University. My research focusses on decadal climate variability, including the mechanisms and dynamics underlying the variability and its impacts on global and regional climates. I am also interested in paleoclimatology and reconstructions, and ecosystem response to climate change. I carried out a lot of original studies using observation and proxy data and simulations of earth system models. Specific interests include Atlantic multidecadal variability, Pacific decadal variability, ENSO, North Atlantic Oscillation, Indo-Pacific warm pool variability, and their impacts on global/regional rainfall and temperature and associated ecosystem responses.
Andrew Tredennick
I am a quantitative ecologist interested in ecological forecasting and the stability of populations, communities, and ecosystems. I have expertise in statistical analyses of ecological systems, population modeling, and the analysis of remote sensing data to address environmental problems.
Giorgio Vacchiano
MA and PhD in forestry at University of Turin. Assistant professor in forest management and planning at University of Milan
Sara Varela
I am working on Pleistocene mammal extinctions. Co-developer of R packages to download data from open access databases (rAvis and paleobioDB), and team member of www.ecoClimate.org, an open access repository to access climatic data for the past, present and future.
Scott Veirs
Oceanographer and bioacoustician facilitating the recovery of endangered regional icons of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.), particularly southern resident killer whales and Pacific salmon. I helped design and was the first major in the Earth Systems program at Stanford University, then earned a M.S. and PhD in Oceanography at the University of Washington. In 2003 I founded Beam Reach and taught ~50 undergraduates and recent graduates to ask and answer their own marine field science questions during 10-week field courses from 2005-2012. During the same period I helped create the Salish Sea Hydrophone Network -- orcasound.net -- which I continue to administer.
Lei Wang
Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Research interests include Geocomputation, GeoAI, Remote Sensing of water, Spectroscopic analyses, and mapping flood hazards.