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.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will present Using Functions-based Approaches in Planning Transportation and Mitigation of Impacts," at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation in Raleigh, North Carolina September 21.

Authors Lydia Olander, Jimmy Kagan, and Robert J. Johnston presented an overview of Best Practices for Integrating Ecosystem Services into Federal Decision Making a companion paper to the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook. This paper provides recommendations for best practices specific to ecosystem services assessments.

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions' Lydia Olander and Alison Eagle will present "Nitrogen Losses: A Meta-Analysis of 4R Nutrient Management in US Corn-Base Systems" at the annual 4R Nutrient Stewardship Summit, May 12, in Washington, D.C.

In December 2014, the National Ecosystem Services Partnership at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions published an online guidebook that provides a framework and methodology to enhance the credibility and consistency of ecosystem services approaches to planning and management. Learn about how the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook may help your planning from one of its creators, Lydia Olander.

Guidebook core team members Lydia Olander and Sally Collins presented an overview of the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services Guidebook.

The National Ecosystem Services Partnership, a Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions initiative, will launch the Federal Resource Management and Ecosystem Services (FRMES) online guidebook for federal resource managers at the A Community on Ecosystem Services Conference (ACES) December 8-12 in Washington, D.C. The guidebook describes how ecosystem services can be integrated into agencies' planning and management processes.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will be among the presenters at a special session at The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation Oct. 23 in Washington, D.C. 

On September 23–26, 2013, the FRMES project hosted a series of meetings in Washington, D.C.

Federal agencies responsible for natural areas are increasingly considering ecosystem services in their planning and management decisions, a new approach with multiple challenges. To address them, the National Ecosystem Services Partnership is collaborating with a number of federal agencies to create an 

On July 21–22, 2014, NESP hosted two meetings in Washington, D.C. The first, on July 21, convened federal agency partners to share an update on the Federal Resource and Ecosystem Services Guidebook and discuss possible next steps to help agencies incorporate ecosystem services into their planning processes. Potential next steps discussed included building examples of ecosystem services applications, creating opportunities for capacitiy building and training, and developing metrics and indicators for ecosystem services.

Lydia Olander, director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, will speak at this 26th annual symposium. "Connecting Systems, Disciplines and Stakeholders" will be the theme of International Congress for Conservation Biology Symposium as it draws attention to the effective maintenance and restoration of Earth’s biological diversity requires an integrated approach to conservation. 

NESP hosted three special sessions, with the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, at the A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) conference, December 10-14, 2012.