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Conservation Innovation Opportunities for 2011
From the Program on Conservation
Innovation at the Harvard Forest in association with the Conservation
Finance Forum
Dear
Colleagues in Conservation:
Every
year, we have the opportunity to share several
interesting opportunities with the conservation innovators that
follow the work of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, and the Conservation Finance
Forum. We are happy to share with you today information on three
exciting programs in the field:
- the 2011 Yale Conservation Finance Camp
that is co-sponsored by the Conservation Finance Forum
- the Acadian Internship in Regional
Stewardship and Conservation being offered in Downeast
Maine and New Brunswick, Canada this summer by friends at the
University of Maine and the SERC Institute, and
- the Wildlands
and Woodlands Stewardship Science Project, a year-round effort
sponsored by the Harvard Forest and Highstead.
Please
take a close look at each of these programs and, if relevant, take
advantage of the opportunity to apply. Feedback I have heard
from participants in prior years' programs has been very
enthusiastic.
Best regards,
Jim Levitt
Director
of the Program on Conservation Innovation
at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University
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Enrollment
Open for 2011 Yale Conservation Finance Camp
This year's session will take
place June 6-10, 2011
The 5th annual Yale Conservation Finance Camp will be held at Yale University, Monday, June 6 through Friday, June 10, 2011. The course offers the latest
information on a wide range of innovative conservation finance tools,
including new sources of philanthropic funds, public capital and private
investment, as well as a framework for analyzing and packaging them. The
camp is focused on useful, hands-on tools for conservation practitioners
and board members, foundation leaders, private investors and graduate
students. This highly interactive course is limited to 20 participants.
Registration is on a first-come-first-served basis.
For further information and a participant
application please contact Amy Badner at
amy.badner@yale.edu
or Click Here to go to the camp webpage.
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The Acadian Intership in Regional Conservation and Stewardship
Applications are now
being accepted for this innovative for-credit program being
offered through the University of Maine's Summer University in partnership with the
Quebec-Labrador Foundation, the SERC Institute, and the Frenchman Bay Conservancy.
The inaugural 2011 Acadian Internship Program is
now accepting applications from students and conservation organizations
for summer 2011. This innovative program combines formal coursework,
offered for credit through the University of Maine's Summer University, with a four-week internship
program to be hosted across the Downeast Maine
and southwest New Brunswick region. Students may be
considered for the Internship program, and conservation entities can
propose to sponsor interns, by completing brief applications available
online at acadianinternship.wordpress.com.
Coursework begins at the Schoodic
Education and Research Center (SERC) in Acadia National Park, July
11, 2011.
Co-instructors Dr. Rob Lilieholm of the
University of Maine School of Forest Resources and Dr. Megan Gahl of the University of New Brunswick will provide an intensive week
of coursework in conservation theory, tools, and methods. A diverse set
of faculty, local experts, and guest lecturers - plus field trips and
case studies within the region - will ground students in the resources
and challenges within the study area. For the next four weeks, Interns
will work with a variety of field sponsors, gaining meaningful, hands-on
internship experience. Finally, Interns will reconvene at SERC to place
what they learned in their field experience within the greater context of
large landscape-scale conservation. The wrap-up will include formal
project presentations open to all stakeholders.
In addition to qualified students, the program is
currently seeking partner organizations that would be interested in
sponsoring a team of interns to complete a focused project. Potential
partners should contact Dr. Sarah Nelson at acadianinternship@gmail.com.
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Wildlands &
Woodlands Stewardship Science Project
Link your project to a
region-wide sceince network
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There are remarkably few rigorous, long-term
evaluations of how forestry and conservation management practices affect
forests in the eastern United States.
Managers frequently conduct operations to control
forest structure or composition, improve wildlife habitat, remove
invasive species, or influence biogeochemical processes without comparing
their results with unmanaged areas nearby. Conversely, research projects
in unmanaged areas are seldom coupled for analysis with adjacent,
actively managed lands.
Interested? Get Involved!
What is
Stewardship Science?
Stewardship Science is just one part of the Wildlands and Woodlands
forest conservation vision for New England. With the Stewardship Science
initiative, we have created a simple, easy-to-use protocol to establish
permanent, paired research plots in conserved woodlands and wildlands. Results from these studies can shed light
on the long-term impacts and effectiveness of management practices that
seek to:
- promote certain characteristics (e.g. specific
species, assemblages, or structure, etc.)
- enhance ecosystem services (e.g. carbon
sequestration, water production, etc.)
- yield desired products (e.g. biomass,
quality timber, etc.)
The project not only provides valuable ecological
and silvicultural insights, but is also an
exciting outreach tool for engaging students and the public in the
importance and enjoyment of ecological research. All involved gain
longer-term perspectives on ecological processes, land stewardship, and
land conservation.
We encourage interested
landowners, organizations, scientists, and others to get involved by establishing their own monitoring plots, making
use of data from existing sites, or becoming a regional representative in
their area.
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This is a publication of the Program on
Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, with additional support from
the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government.
Contact: James N. Levitt,
Director
The Program on Conservation Innovation
at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University
Work telephone: 617-489-7800
james_levitt@harvard.edu
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