Defense Presentation Title: Policy, Place, and Practice: Mapping Data into Decisions for Environmental Investment Advisor: Dr. Bethany Cutts, faculty fellow and associate professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management Abstract: Data gives us the power to understand environmental challenges and the decisions we make to address them. Yet gaps and misalignments between how…

Defense Presentation Title: What’s all this then?: Managing Piedmont forests for balanced ecosystem service delivery Advisor: Dr. Robert Scheller, faculty fellow and associate dean for research in the College of Natural Resources Abstract: Ecosystem services are the goods and services that nature provides to society and the wider ecosystem. Tradeoffs are inherent in any ecosystem, but attempts…