Erle Ellis
{{Short description|American environmental scientist}}
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Erle Christopher Ellis (born 11 March 1963 in Washington, DC) is an American environmental scientist. Ellis's work investigates the causes and consequences of long-term ecological changes caused by humans at local to global scales, including those related to the Anthropocene. As of 2015 he is a professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he directs the Laboratory for Anthroecology.
Education and career
Ellis received an A.B. in Biology in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Cornell University in 1990 with Roger Spanswick. After receiving his Ph.D., Ellis taught English at Nanjing Agricultural University in 1990/1991, and returned to China to study nitrogen cycling in China's village landscapes from 1993-1996.{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|last2=Wang|first2=Si Ming|title=Sustainable traditional agriculture in the Tai Lake Region of China|journal=Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment|date=1997|volume=61|issue=2–3|pages=177–193|doi=10.1016/S0167-8809(96)01099-7|s2cid=85270811 |doi-access=free|bibcode=1997AgEE...61..177E }} From 1996 to 2000, he worked with Stephen Gliessman at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In 2000 he was hired as an assistant professor in the department of Geography and Environmental Systems of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; he was promoted to professor in 2015.
He is a fellow of the Global Land Programme (Scientific Steering Committee 2012-2017) of Future Earth, a former member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a Senior Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute (and coauthor of the Ecomodernist Manifesto), and an advisor to the Nature Needs Half movement. He has taught ecology as a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2013-2015) and was a visiting professor at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology (2006/2007).
Work
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Ellis' research has explored long-term ecological changes in China's villages,{{cite journal|last1=Mervis|first1=Jeff|title=Field research also needs the human touch|journal=Science|date=1995|volume=270|issue=5239|pages=1145|doi=10.1126/science.270.5239.1145|s2cid=129371454|url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.270.5239.1145|url-access=subscription}}{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|last2=Neerchal|first2=Nagaraj|last3=Peng|first3=Kui|last4=Xiao|first4=Hong Sheng|last5=Wang|first5=Hongqing|last6=Yan|first6=Zhuang|last7=Li|first7=Shou Cheng|last8=Wu|first8=Jun Xi|last9=Jiao|first9=Jia Guo|last10=Ouyang|first10=Hua|last11=Cheng|first11=Xu|last12=Yang|first12=Lin Zhang|title=Estimating long-term changes in China's village landscapes|journal=Ecosystems|date=2009|volume=12|issue=2|pages=279–297|doi=10.1007/s10021-008-9222-4|bibcode=2009Ecosy..12..279E |citeseerx=10.1.1.567.3873|s2cid=23726932}} and in 2008, he produced the first global map of anthropogenic biomes (and coined the term "anthrome") together with Navin Ramankutty.{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|last2=Ramankutty|first2=Navin|title=Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world|journal=Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment|date=2008|volume=6|issue=8|pages=439–447|doi=10.1890/070062|doi-access=free|bibcode=2008FrEE....6..439E }}{{cite magazine|last1=Madrigal|first1=Alexis|title=Mapping the Humanized World|url=https://www.wired.com/2007/11/mapping-the-hum/|magazine=Wired|date=2007}}{{cite journal|last1=Holden|first1=Constance|title=Humankind's global footprint|journal=Science|date=2007|volume=318|issue=5858|pages=1839|doi=10.1126/science.318.5858.1839c|s2cid=220093764}} In 2019, he helped to lead a massive collaboration of archaeologists to map land use changes around the world over the past 10,000 years.{{Cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|last2=Goldewijk|first2=Kees Klein|last3=Gaillard|first3=Marie-José|last4=Kaplan|first4=Jed O.|last5=Thornton|first5=Alexa|last6=Powell|first6=Jeremy|last7=Garcia|first7=Santiago Munevar|last8=Beaudoin|first8=Ella|last9=Zerboni|first9=Andrea|date=2019-08-30|title=Archaeological assessment reveals Earth's early transformation through land use|journal=Science|language=en|volume=365|issue=6456|pages=897–902|doi=10.1126/science.aax1192|issn=0036-8075|pmid=31467217|bibcode=2019Sci...365..897S|hdl=10150/634688|s2cid=201674203|hdl-access=free}}
Ellis has published more than 100 scientific articles relating to global and local ecological changes caused by humans,[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=V7pvcboAAAAJ Google Scholar Report] and is a Global Highly Cited Researcher ([https://publons.com/researcher/1639437/erle-c-ellis/ Cross-Field, 2018, 2019, 2020]). He has also written a number of articles and opinions communicating his work and other matters relating to humans as agents of ecological change, at Science,{{Cite journal|last=Ellis|first=Erle C.|date=2019-06-28|title=Sharing the land between nature and people|journal=Science|language=en|volume=364|issue=6447|pages=1226–1228|doi=10.1126/science.aax2608|issn=0036-8075|pmid=31249042|bibcode=2019Sci...364.1226E|doi-access=free}} Nature,{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|last2=Maslin|first2=Mark|last3=Boivin|first3=Nicole|last4=Bauer|first4=Andrew|title=Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene|journal=Nature|date=2016|volume=540|issue=7632|pages=192–193|doi=10.1038/540192a|doi-access=free|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-1979-2|hdl-access=free}} New Scientist,{{cite news|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Time to forget global tipping points|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729070-200-time-to-forget-global-tipping-points/|work=NewScientist|issue=2907|date=March 9, 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Forget Mother Nature: This is a World of Our Making|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028165-700-forget-mother-nature-this-is-a-world-of-our-making/|work=NewScientist|issue=2816|date=June 14, 2011}} The New York Times,{{cite news|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Overpopulation Is Not the Problem|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is-not-the-problem.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 13, 2013}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/science-people-environment-earth.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Science Alone Won't Save the Earth. People Have to Do That.|last=Ellis|first=Erle|date=August 11, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-08-16|language=en}} Breakthrough Journal,{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Nature for the People: Toward A Democratic Vision for the Biosphere|journal=Breakthrough Journal|date=2017|issue=7|pages=15–25|url=https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-7/nature-for-the-people}}{{cite journal|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=The Planet of No Return: Human Resilience on an Artificial Earth|journal=Breakthrough Journal|date=2011|issue=2|pages=39–44|url=https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-2/the-planet-of-no-return}} and other venues. His first book, Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction,{{cite book|last1=Ellis|first1=Erle|title=Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction|volume=1|date=2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198792987|doi=10.1093/actrade/9780198792987.001.0001}} was published in 2018.
Awards
- [https://facultystaffawards.umbc.edu/home/2021-2024-presidential-research-professor/ 2021-2024 Presidential Research Professor, UMBC.]
- [https://www.esa.org/history/Awards/bulletin/ESA%20Awards%202019.pdf 2019 Innovation in Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925192240/https://www.esa.org/history/Awards/bulletin/ESA%20Awards%202019.pdf |date=2020-09-25 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RlVnaxTUv4 Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTUOHMkGa0Q Discover: Human Influence on Ecology Mapped]
- [https://ges.umbc.edu/ellis/ Department Website]
- [http://anthroecology.org/people/ellis Profile at the Laboratory for Anthroecology]
- [http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/workinggroups/anthropocene/ Anthropocene Working Group] of the International Commission on Stratigraphy
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