Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak during the session "Remediation to Restoration" on Thursday, December 6, at the 2018 A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference (ACES).

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak during the session "Getting to Why Ecosystem Services Matter before your Audience gets to ZZZZ" on Wednesday, December 5, at the 2018 A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference (ACES).

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will lead a pre-conference workshop on Monday, December 3, at the 2018 A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference (ACES).

Learn about the National Ecosystem Services Partnership’s (NESP) new Conceptual Model Series in a webinar, Friday, September 28, 3-4 p.m. ET.  

Join Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions 10 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Friday, February 23, to learn about the Department of the Interior's Southeast Climate Science Center, one of eight regional climate science centers managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will be among the speakers at the 2017 Albemarle-Pamlico Ecosystem Symposium: Eyes on the Horizon on Wednesday, November 1. Olander will speak during the session The Value of the Albemarle-Pamlico Region on "Ecosystem Services Guidance, Models, and Prioritization."

For more information, visit the symposium website. 

The Bridge Collaborative will host a two-day launch event in London October 25 and October 26. Lydia Olander and Tim Profeta of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions will speak at the event, which is focused on:

Ecosystem Services Program director Lydia Olander will deliver the keynote address at Ecosystem Services: From Concept to Policy in Washington, D.C., May 19. The symposium hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science & Technology Policy Fellowships will focus on how policy decision making at the national and international levels can improve use of our scientific understanding of the services provided to human societies by nature (ecosystem services). The event will promote discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of placing a monetary value on biodiversity and on developing and applying the associated valuation tools. It also aims to spark a conversation about what constitutes an ecosystem service. Registration is required.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will present during the panel session "Incorporating Ecosystem Services into NEPA," at the 2017 National Association of Environmental Professionals Conference March 28.

Registration is required. For more information, please visit the conference website.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak at NCSE 2017: Integrating Environment and Health on January 25. There, she'll present the workshop "Uncovering Connections Between Healthy Ecosystems and Healthy Communities."

Registration is required. For more information, visit the event website.

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Ecosystem Services Program director Lydia Olander will speak during a special session organized by The Nature Conservancy on "Evidence Chains to Take Ecosystem Services from Popular Concept to Widespread Impact" at the A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference Wednesday, December 7.

This session focuses on how a causal chain model can be used as a foundation for best practice and consistency measurements for ecosystem services.

The National Ecosystem Services Partnership will host "Methods for Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Decision Making: From Benefit Relevant Indicators to Monetary Values" at the A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference Monday, December 5. The session will be led by Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and others.

The Nicholas Institute's Alison Eagle and Lydia Olander will present "Enlisting the Weatherman in Decisions about Enhanced Efficiency N Fertilizers," at 1:30 p.m. Monday, November 7 at the American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will deliver the opening keynote address on "Evolving our Thoughts and Practices about the Value of Water" March 18 at the Water Resources Research Institute Annual Conference. 

For more information, visit the event website.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak on a panel about restoration at the "Wetland Resilience in North Carolina:  Examining the Ecological, Political, and Market Climate Affecting the Future of North Carolina's Wetlands" event March 4 at the Duke Gardens. For more information, visit the event website.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak at The U.S Department of Agriculture's 92nd Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., Feb. 25. Olander will present during the Ecosystem Services and Environmental Markets session, where she will discuss incorporating ecosystem services into federal decision making. 

For more information on the forum, visit the website.

The Nicholas Institute will host a day-long forum—convened in honor of its tenth anniversary—to assess how we can harness big data, cutting-edge technologies, and adaptation research to create science-based, interdisciplinary approaches attuned to the accelerating and dynamic change in the world.