As an interdisciplinary scholar, I value the opportunity to work with colleagues from different disciplines and societal interest groups to address topics of shared interest. Here are some interesting previous workshops to which I have been invited and taken part:
▪ Species range extensions and local adaptation: Challenging ecological and evolutionary ideas and assumptions (Bariloche, Argentina, 2018)
▪ Incorporating genomic and biotechnology tools into a conservation biology ethical framework in a rapidly changing world (University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 2017)
▪ Urban invasions: Patterns, processes and management (Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2016)
▪ Blurring boundaries: Rethinking old divisions in the human-animal relationship (Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2015)
▪ Ecological restoration and ecosystem services: Synthesizing concepts, science, law, economics, and ethics (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD 2014)
▪ Changing climate change communication: A conference on the interactions between culture, society and language in the context of global warming (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014)
▪ The social life of invasive plants (Wollongong, Australia, 2013)
▪ Environmental justice and new metaphors (Turku, Finland, 2012)
▪ Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of ecological novelty (Bielefeld, Germany, 2012)
▪ Understanding and managing ecological novelty (Monte Verita, Switzerland, 2011)
▪ Cary Conference: Linking ecology and ethics for a changing world: Values, philosophy, and action (Millbrook, NY 2011)
▪ Enduring voices: Global mapping for languages, cultures and biodiversity (National Geographic Society, Washington, DC 2008)
▪ New England workshop on science and social change: Ecological restoration as social reconstruction (Woods Hole, MA 2006)
▪ Ecological metaphors, Workshop I organized at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA 2004)
▪ Kira Institute summer school, Ways of knowing (Amherst, MA 2001)
▪ Santa Fe Institute complex systems summer school (Santa Fe, NM 2000)
