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ESA Southeast Knowledge Partnership Pilot Project
Stemming from the Society’s Visions Report in 2004, an Ecological Society of America Steering Committee has been working to move forward on complementing the Society’s national-level environmental policy activities with regionally focused policy and education initiatives. The overall goal is to forge effective working relationships between science, business, and government to anticipate and solve emerging environmental issues that will have broad impact on the region’s economy and quality of life. The initial pilot project will focus on the issue of land use change in the Southeast, particularly the urban/suburban – wildland interface that is occurring at unprecedented rates. An evening session at the upcoming ESA Annual Meeting in San Jose, California will update attendees on the status of this project.
Steering Committee Members:
Alan Covich, University of Georgia, ESA President
Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Lab, ESA Past-President
Norman Christensen, Duke University, ESA President-Elect
Michael Binford, University of Florida
Virginia Dale, Oak Ridge National Lab
Frank Gilliam, Marshall University
Margaret Lowman, New College of Florida
Randy Overbey, President, Energy Business, Alcoa Power Generating Inc.
Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University
Peter White, University of North Carolina
Links related to the issue of land use change in the Southeast:
The Wildland-Urban Interface in the South--US Department of Agriculture Compass Magazine
The Florida Land Use Initiative is a two to three year program developed by Florida Earth Foundation to give people the possibility of visioning ways the integrity of Florida's natural landscape, especially in the private sector, can be maintained at the same time unprecedented new growth is occurring.
Southeast Environmental Leadership Program
The goal of this initiative, managed by the Environmental Leadership Program, is select emerging leaders in the area who will receive leadership training to build the capacity of the region to address environmental challenges.
