Fifty Years In 50 Minutes and What’s Next?

On Thursday, December 12 @ 11am ET, join Cary Institute for a virtual scientific seminar by Cary’s Dr. Steward Pickett.

Click HERE to register on the Cary Institute website.

Learn more about Dr. Pickett and his work HERE.

This talk will show how a diverse ecological career hangs together conceptually. Pickett’s research has taken him across a wide variety of global habitats, stimulating discovery of conceptual commonalities and contexts that frame and organize the differences across this diversity of sites and interests.

The core theme is heterogeneity, across both space and time, as an ecological driver and outcome. Brief examples of work on 1) succession and community dynamics, 2) disturbance ecology, 3) testing the relevance of the ecosystem approach in urban ecology, 4) synthesis in social-ecological science, 5) application of patch dynamics to urban regions, 6) bridging urban ecology and urban design, 7) environmental justice and ecology of segregation, and 8) Earth stewardship and urban sustainability. The relationship between these various areas is summarized, and some remaining work will be highlighted. The talk will acknowledge collaborators and ancestors, both personal and academic.