The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics hosted the second annual Gund Research Slam on November 20, 2014.  Over 100 people from UVM and Vermont attended the event to learn about transdisciplinary research projects being carried out by Gund Fellows and Graduate Fellows.  Researchers were challenged to present one key area of their work in four minutes.  After ten presentations we broke for an hour to answer questions, discuss new areas for collaboration, and reconnect with new and old colleagues.   Films of the presentations are below, along with a short video montage of the event.  We hope to see everyone next year!

Bill Keeton: "We Can Make Forest Carbon Markets Work in Vermont!"

Margarita Fernandez: "Subsistence Under the Canopy: What is the relationship between agrobiodiversity and food Security?"

Gillian Galford: "The Vermont Climate Assessment"          

Josh Farley: "Speculation on a Full Planet"   

Monika Derrien: "Managing the Intangible: National Parks and night skies"

Asim Zia: "Spatial Scale and Political Ideology Confound Climate Risk Communication"

Donna Rizzo: "Nonlinear Heuristic Multi-Objective Optimization Design"

Steve Posner: "What Explains the Policy Impact of Ecosystem Service Knowledge?"

Jon Erickson: "Economics for the Anthropocene"

Brendan Fisher: "The Power of Mom"

Mairi-Jane Fox: "Genuine Development in the States: A comparative analysis of 50 States economies using Genuine Progress Indicator"

Bob Herendeen: "Street Lighting Levels and the Dark Sky: How much light is enough?"

Joe Roman: "Anecdotes and the Shifting Baseline Syndrome of Fisheries"

Tracey McCowen: "Can the Federal Reserve Bank Act to Mitigate Climate Change?"

Julie Nash: "Is Luxury Compatible with Sustainability?"

Ernesto Méndez: "Revisiting the Thin Months: A longitudinal study of food security & livelihoods in Mesoamerican coffee cooperatives"

Chris Koliba: "Democracy, Markets and Leadership... Oh My! Accountability breakdowns in BP oil spill disaster"

Taylor Ricketts: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: What is the evidence for a link?"