Short Biography

Dr. Margaret Palmer
Director

National Socio-Environmental

Synthesis Center

Professor
Department of Entomology
University of Maryland

Professor
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

phone 410.919.4810





In the News:


NSF Grant Launches Center for Synthesizing Environmental and Related Research - August 2011


The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center is a research center dedicated to creating synthetic, actionable science related to the structure, functioning, and sustainability of socio-environmental systems.



SESYNC Website
NSF Announcesment
UMD Announcement

New Article on Mountaintop Mining - April 2011

Article published provides comprehensive review as companion to 2010 Science article (link).  Includes addditional research on the cumulative impacts of mining and ecological threshold responses in progress.

Latest on Diversitas - March 2011

Forging links between BioFresh, DIVERSITAS and the Society for Conservation Biology
Freshwater BIODIVERSITY at the North American Benthological Society Conference.


Palmer Feature in Article 'Stand up for Science - December 2010.

Dr. Palmer featured in new article on communicating science to the public published in the journal Nature. Read it here.

 

Palmer commentary in Nature on World Water in Crisis - October 2010

New commentary by Dr. Palmer in the journal Nature. Read it here.

 

Palmer gives WWF's Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature lecture - September 2010

Read the abstract from the lecture here.

 

Diversitas Convention on Biodiversity pre-conference lecture by Palmer: Reducing Pressure on Freshwater Systems - March 2010

 

"Mountaintop Mining Consequences" published in Science Magazine - January 2010

Link to article and supporting material.
Link to official press release.
News story from clean skies.
News conference at National Press Club - January 7.