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Join us March 9th for this ALPINE webinar exploring The Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC) at the College of William and Mary. The IIC at William and Mary was launched in January of 2020 with a mission of cultivating an inclusive community of creative thought leaders to deliver timely and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing conservation challenges. The IIC will be at the forefront of transformational research and education that will ultimately serve to advance sustainability efforts, solve real-world conservation issues, and train the next generation of diverse conservation leaders.
 The Institute for Integrative Conservation team will work towards this mission through two main pathways: 1) by bringing together global expertise, diverse perspectives, and an entrepreneurial mindset to address conservation challenges and 2) by helping to prepare the next generation of bold, compassionate, and principled conservationists.
In this talk, Executive Director Dr. Robert Rose will discuss the IIC launch, the definition of “integrative conservation”, the Institute’s foundational activities, and the emerging initiatives including a proposal to support US land trusts and the development of a next generation conservation capacity platform. In addition, he will discuss opportunities to engage IIC faculty and students on collaborative conservation projects.
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Robert Rose is the Executive Director for the Institute for Integrative Conservation (IIC) at the College of William & Mary. Robert came to William & Mary in 2015 as the Director for the Center for Geospatial Analysis (CGA). Prior to William & Mary he spent seven years at the Wildlife Conservation Society as the Assistant Director of Conservation Support, a team that provided technical support and training to conservation programs around the globe. Robert’s interests include conservation and conservation planning, the use of GIS and remote sensing to better understand drivers of land change and broader conservation issues, the promotion of remote sensing for conservation applications and the integration of advanced and interactive geovisualization tools to better engage students in the classroom. Robert earned a PhD in Geography with a minor in ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
