Collaborators
We collaborate with a wide range of groups and organizations. Here is a sample of them:
UVM-based Collaborators
The Gund Institute for Environment brings scholars and leaders together to accelerate research, uncover solutions and tackle the world's most pressing environmental issues. Taylor is the Director, and there are many overlaps and collaborations with our lab's work.
The BREE project helps identify strategies for resilience in the social ecological system of the Lake Champlain Basin.
The UVM Food Systems Initiative encompasses a wide range of topics such as innovative production systems, environmental quality, entrepreneurship, human health and wellbeing, and nutrition
Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) is a global partnership – initially based at UVM and McGill University – that develops thought leaders for a new Ecozoic era.
QuEST provides doctoral students with the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to solve environmental and global health problems in an ever changing workforce and research environment.
Transdisciplinary group of faculty and their graduate students and postdocs who collaborate in analyzing, modeling, and understanding complex systems.
External Collaborators
Beyond the Academy is an international network of sustainability researchers united in a commitment to identify and overcome institutional barriers to making universities more supportive of applied interdisciplinary research with real-world impact.
The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Costa Rica (CATIE), is an international organization with a unique combination of science, postgraduate education and innovation for development.
The Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) is a unique collaboration between the University of Cambridge and leading internationally-focused biodiversity conservation organizations clustered in and around Cambridge, UK.
EfD support poverty alleviation and sustainable development through the increased use of environmental economics in the policy making process.
A USDA-funded consortium to investigate and enhance native pollinators for U.S. crops.
An NGO-University partnership to map ecosystem services, estimate their value to people, and apply this information to improve decisions.
A consortium of over 70 dedicated universities, NGOs, government entities, research institutes, and other partners around the world committed to advancing planetary health.
A collaboration, led by Harvard Forest, to synthesize existing science, catalyze new research, and produce science products to understand and advance sustainable land-use trajectories.
The Nature Conservancy has protects land across Vermont to create a landscape where where people and nature thrive.
The BRIDGE project is managed by USAID’s E3 Forestry and Biodiversity Office. The project advances the second goal of USAID’s Biodiversity Policy, to “integrate biodiversity as an essential component of human development.”
Since 1977, the Vermont Land Trust has protected farmland and forestland from subdivision and development.