Scientists from The Nature Conservancy Meet at Hastings

The Nature Conservancy's Global Science and Indicators group is an international and multi-disciplinary team of conservation scientists specializing in broad-scale, spatially explicit analyses of biodiversity, habitat condition, and threats to the world’s freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. They met at Hastings Reserve to integrate a large amount of global data that has been generated over the past year-and-a-half, including, for example: marine features such as corals, mangroves, and saltmarshes, freshwater features such as megadiverse catchments, and terrestrial features such as most remote (to Homo sapiens economicus) regions on earth (in addition to many other data themes). They are designing a large data serving capability, as well as further developing a number of publications, including one book and at least 10 manuscripts. Their overall purpose is to provide scientific guidance to TNC and other organizations on conservation investments at the global scale. Michael's wonderful food (Moveable Feast) kept them going, Feb 5-11.

Front Row: L-R; Michael Jennings, Senior Terrestrial Scientist, Carmen Revenga, Senior Freshwater Scientist, TJ Heibel, Research Assistant. Back Row: James Robertson, GIS Analyst, Jonathan Hoekstra, Lead Scientist, Mark Spalding, Senior Marine Scientist, Timothy Boucher, Spatial Scientist, Jennifer Molnar, Conservation Scientist.