2012 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture: Ecologist Erle Ellis
Date: Monday, October 29th, 2012 
Start: 8:00 pm
Location: Great Hall, ISU Memorial Union, Ames, Iowa
Contact: Henry A. Wallace Chair Matt Liebman, mliebman@iastate.edu 515-294-7486
Ecologist Erle Ellis will present "Agriculture in the Anthropocene: Growing a Sustainable Human Ecology."
He studies human landscapes and how our use and transformation of the earth is a primary driver of global changes in climate, biodiversity and biogeochemistry. He argues the Age of Man is not a disaster and calls for a new, forward-thinking approach to environmentalism.
Ellis has developed a scientific approach to mapping the human footprint, including tools that link human and ecological change processes on a small scale with their global causes and consequences. It's one of several of his efforts to inform sustainable stewardship of thebiosphere.
He is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His work has been featured in the Discovery Channel video "Human Influence on Ecology Mapped." He earned a PhD at Cornell University.
The Henry A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University is the lead organizer of this annual lecture. Co-sponsors include the Bioeconomy Institute; College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Agronomy; Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology; Plant Science Institute; Practical Farmers of Iowa; and Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
A grant from the Leopold Center Competitive Educational Support Program (CESP) is funding part of the event cost.
Related information
Listen to this lecture [ISU Lecture Program mp3 file]
Pesek Colloquium website
Poster [PDF]
Information about Ellis and his work
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture |
Ames, Iowa 50011 |
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