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Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year
From all of us at NatCap, happy holidays! Thank you for being a part of the NatCap community. Especially after this challenging year, we're so grateful to have you as collaborators, peers, and friends. We're looking forward to new opportunities to grow and learn as we work together across our whole network to make this planet a better home for people and nature.
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"I've always had a fondness for kelp."
Allison, a research data scientist on NatCap's Seattle team, talks about wearing baseball hats with antennae on top to do GIS fieldwork in the '90s, keeping busy in the pandemic, and what she loves about working at NatCap.
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Our new Natural Capital Conversations start in January! Join us for live conversations with expert panelists from across NatCap’s diverse network of scientists, practitioners, and leaders in government and the private sector.
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Our free, online course is now available in Spanish!
We've seen great engagement with the English version of the course, which launched earlier this year. In an effort to broaden its reach and to equip partners in Latin America and elsewhere with NatCap tools and approaches, we are pleased to announce the Spanish version of the course.
Toma el curso en español en línea aquí
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Natural Capital Project co-founder awarded Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for illuminating and quantifying the economic value of natural environment.
Farms with diverse crops planted together provide more secure, stable habitats for wildlife and are more resilient to climate change.
Gross Domestic Product, the standard metric for measuring national economies, doesn’t account for the valuable services provided by nature. A new approach could help fill the gap.
Mary Ruckelshaus discusses how she and her co-authors of the new Blue Paper 12 used science-based governance to transition into a sustainable ocean economy.
New paper highlights the benefits of cost-sharing the conservation of wild bee habitats on agricultural lands, especially in small-scale farming communities, in an effort to overcome the tragedy of the commons.
New paper calls for the consideration of people’s diverse needs in order to develop effective nature-based policies and investments in ecosystems.
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Recent Press & Publications
Liu, L., & Zhang, X. (2020). Effects of temperature variability and extremes on spring phenology across the contiguous United States from 1982 to 2016. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 17952. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74804-4
Tamburini, G., Santoiemma, G., E. O’Rourke, M., Bommarco, R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Dainese, M., Karp, D. S., Kim, T. N., Martin, E. A., Petersen, M., & Marini, L. (2020). Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition: A global analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1937), 20202116. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2116
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