NESP Digest, January 2020

NESP Digest: January 2020

This is the quarterly newsletter of the National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) , which provides updates on our recent activities as well as some other information on ecosystem services that we hope you’ll find useful.

If you have items that you’d like to include in the next edition of the NESP Digest, please send them to us .

NESP UPDATES

NESP has a new series: Mapping Ecosystem Services for the Southeast United States.

Each brief from the series details methods and data used to map priority areas for conservation or restoration of a particular ecosystem service in the Southeast. Briefs on " Conservation and Restoration Priorities for Wild Pollinator Habitat " and " Conservation Priorities for Recreational Birding " can now be found on our website, with more to come! (Mapping results for Pollinator Habitat and Birding can be found on ScienceBase.)

NESP Webinar: Ecosystem Service Assessments at Three National Wildlife Refuges

Watch a recording of the December 2019 NESP webinar , Ecosystem Services Assessments at Three National Wildlife Refuges. During the webinar economist Emily Pindilli from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) described the USGS LandCarbon program’s in-depth ecosystem service assessments at three different National Wildlife Refuges.

IN THE NEWS

Nature Conservancy Targets Florida and Hawaii for Parametric Reef Insurance . Artemis , September 26.

Green Bonds Worth $150 Million Will Conserve Millions of Acres of At-Risk Forests . Forbes , October 16.

Malaria Surges in Deforested Parts of the Amazon . Mongabay , October 23.

Investors Turn to Natural Capital for Resilience and Reputation . Environmental Finance , November 25.

The Ohio River Community of Newport Bands Together to Slow Runoff and Add Greenspace . Environmental Health News , December 19.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bollini et al. 2019. Local Community Benefits from Ecosystem Services Provided by Mangroves on the North Brazil Shelf . IUCN, Conservation International, GEF, and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.

Calder et al. 2019. Forecasting Ecosystem Services to Guide Coastal Wetland Rehabilitation Decisions . Ecosystem Services .

Chaplin-Kramer et al. 2019. Global Modeling of Nature’s Contributions to People . Science .

Dainese et al. 2019. A Global Synthesis Reveals Biodiversity-mediated Benefits for Crop Production . Science Advances .

Donofrio et al. 2019. Financing Emissions Reductions for the Future: State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019 . Ecosystem Marketplace.

Feldmann et al. 2019. Innovative State-led Efforts to Finance Agricultural Conservation . EDF.

Kagan et al. 2019. Assessing Ecosystem Services Benefits from Military Installations . Oregon State University, Duke University, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Narayan et al. 2019. Valuing the Flood Risk Reduction Benefits of Florida’s Mangroves . The Nature Conservancy.

Seddon et al. 2019. Nature-based Solutions in Nationally Determined Contributions . IUCN.

Wang and Tassinary. 2019. Effects of Greenspace Morphology on Mortality at the Neighborhood Level: A Cross-sectional Ecological Study . The Lancet Planetary Health .

UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS

February 3–6. Social Coast Forum . Charleston, South Carolina.

March 16–18. Natural Capital Symposium . Stanford, California.

June 22–26. Conservation Finance Boot Camp . New Haven, Connecticut.

August 2–6. National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration . Portland, Oregon.

September 21–25. Ecosystem Services Partnership European Regional Conference . Tartu, Estonia.

December 14–17. A Community on Ecosystem Services . Bonita Springs, Florida.

GRANTS AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Job Opportunities:

Ecosystem Services of Chesapeake Bay Researcher . Environmental Protection Agency. Gulf Breeze, Florida.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economist . IMSG/ NOAA. Silver Spring, Maryland.

Assistant Research Scientist in Ecosystem Services . Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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