Expertise
His research interests are forest landscapes as social-ecological systems, their responses to multiple drivers of change (including climate, land use, invasives and pollution), and developing frameworks and tools for making better real-world decisions. He teaches several areas of ecology (forest, landscape, global change) as well as graduate seminars in ecological economics, adaptive management and regional sustainability. Colin is an ecologist interested in the complex relationships between economies, institutions and the ecosystems upon which society depends.
I am a broadly trained ecologist interested in the functions, dynamics, and adaptive capacity of forest ecosystems and landscapes - including humans and our economic, political, and cultural institutions - in a rapidly changing world.
- Forest Ecology & Management
- Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation
- Ecosystem Services
- Long-Term Ecosystem Monitoring
- Land Use Planning, Policy and Governance of Forest Landscapes
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Biocultural Restoration
- Forest Biogeochemistry & Greenhouse Gas Budgets
- Applied Geoinformatics
Research: forest ecosystem and landscape ecology, social-ecological systems, climate change, ecosystem services, landscape change modeling, resilience, adaptive management, resource governance, applied geoinformatics