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Marten Scheffer @mscheffer
Wageningen University

Prof. Dr. M. (Marten) Scheffer (1958) currently leads the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group at Wageningen University. He is interested in unraveling the mechanisms that determine the stability and resilience of complex systems. Altho…

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Néstor Mazzeo @nmazzeo
Universidad de la República

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Science Board Members

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Ana Parma @aparma
Centro Nacional Patagónico

Ana Parma is an expert in fisheries modeling, assessment and management. Her main research interest is in the development of stock assessment methods and robust harvesting strategies. She has modeled data-rich industrial fisheries such as Pacific hal…

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Carl Folke @cfolke
Stockholm Resilience Centre

Carl has extensive experience in transdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social scientists, and has worked with ecosystem dynamics and services as well as the social and economic dimension of ecosystem management and proactive measures to…

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Frances Westley @fwestley
University of Waterloo

Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo as the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation in July 2007. In this role she will head up a Canada wide initiative in social innovation, SiG (Social Innovation Generation), a cross sectoral partnersh…

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Jordi Bascompte @jbascompte
University of Barcelona

Jordi obtained a PhD in Biology by the University of Barcelona, Spain (1994), supervised by Ricard V. Solé. This was followed by a postdoctoral position in Stephen Frank's laboratory at the University of California, Irvine (1996 and 1997). Later on…

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Laurie Beth Clark @lbclark
University of Wisconsin

Laurie Beth Clark (B.A. Hampshire College, M.A. New Mexico, M.F.A., Rutgers) uses video and performance as well as sculptural components to construct topical installations. Her work is large scale and site specific and often incorporates the particip…

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Marten Scheffer @mscheffer
Wageningen University

Prof. Dr. M. (Marten) Scheffer (1958) currently leads the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group at Wageningen University. He is interested in unraveling the mechanisms that determine the stability and resilience of complex systems. Altho…

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Omar Defeo @odefeo
Universidad de la República

Omar Defeo, D.Sc., is a professor in the Marine Science Unit at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. Defeo has worked on assessment and management of artisanal (traditional small-scale) fisheries and conservation of biological diversity (biod…

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Osvaldo Sala @osala
Arizona University

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Pablo Marquet @pmarquet
Catholic University of Chile

Current affiliation: Full Professor, Ecology Department, Catholic University of Chile, P.O. Box 114-D, Santiago, Chile.
Associated Scientist at the Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity (CASEB, Chile) and Institut…

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Steve Carpenter @scarpenter
University of Wisconsin

Stephen Russell (Steve) Carpenter is a leader of whole-ecosystem experiments and adaptive ecosystem management focused on freshwaters. Topics include trophic cascades and their effects on production and nutrient cycling, contaminant cycles, freshwate…

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