Erle Ellis

Research Interests

• Landscape Ecology, Global Change, Sustainable Landscape Management, Anthropocene

Research Focus

• My research investigates the ecology of human-managed ecosystems at local and global scales towards the goal of informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene.

Recent projects

• Anthroecology: A new paradigm for ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere • GLOBE: Online tools for global synthesis of local knowledge • Ecosynth: Inexpensive tools for scanning landscapes in 3D • Anthromes (anthropogenic biomes): global analysis of human/ecosystem interactions

Education

• Ph.D. Cornell University (1986 — 1990)
• AB Cornell University (1981 — 1986)
• High School Sidwell Friends (1977 — 1981)

Companies

• Professor University of Maryland Baltimore County (2015)
• Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2015 — 2016)
• Member, User Working Group NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) (2011 — 2015)
• Visiting Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2013 — 2015)
• Associate Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2006 — 2015)
• Editor, Author Encyclopedia of Earth (2007 — 2011)
• Visiting Professor Carnegie Institution (2006 — 2007)
• Assistant Professor University of Maryland Baltimore County (2000 — 2006)
• Research Associate UC Santa Cruz (1996 — 2000)