Faculty Research Fellow Michael Dietze Interviewed in Science About Ecological Forecasting Initiative
Michael Dietze, an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Faculty Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently interviewed in Science about the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI).
Launched in 2018 with the help of a seed grant from the Pardee Center, EFI is a grassroots consortium aimed at building and supporting an interdisciplinary community of practice around near-term ecological forecasts, an emerging research area focused on accelerating environmental research and making it more relevant to society. In May, the Pardee Center co-sponsored the 2019 EFI Conference at AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC. Over 100 people of all career stages were in attendance for the meeting, representing a broad range of academic disciplines, federal agencies, and NGOs.
“It’s been very exciting to see this community come together so quickly,” Dietze said in the interview. “It really feels like we’re at a tipping point of starting to change the way ecologists approach their science and how that science can serve society.”