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Ecosystem Science: measuring, mapping and predicting the production of nature’s goods and services
Citation:
DeWitt, Ted, J. Moon, AND M. Gray. Ecosystem Science: measuring, mapping and predicting the production of nature’s goods and services. Presented at Science Palooza, Newport, OR, February 05, 2014.
Impact/Purpose:
Engaging high school students to think about what ecosystem services are, which ones they and others in their community use, and the processes responsible for the production of those services is the topic of a short class that Dr. DeWitt and colleagues are presenting during the "Science Palooza" at Newport High School (Newport, OR).
Description:
Our existence, let alone our well-being, depends on “goods and services” produced by ecosystems (food, purification of water and air, outdoor recreation, etc.). Humans have the power to enhance, protect, or degrade nature’s capacity to provide these ecosystem services, and thereby affect our own health, economy and well-being. Join us to learn how ecologists are studying how and where ecosystem services are produced in coastal ecosystems, how that production is affected by human actions, and how this knowledge can lead to wiser decision-making at local-to-global scales.