One Health Seminar Series: Anthropogenic impacts on environmental systems
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McLaughlin Library, room 384
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Liane Miedema
Anthropogenic impacts on environmental systems
Ph.D. Candidate | School of Environmental Sciences
Ontario Agricultural College | University of Guelph
Liane Miedema is a PhD candidate at the University of Guelph, researching landscape ecology, with a focus on the effects of land mosaics on forest communities, plant functional traits and human-environment interactions. She seeks to find new ways to uncover the connections between living things and their surroundings—both through her research as well as through art and other forms of interdisciplinary work.
Seminar description: Our society is inseparable from the environment, whether it’s the planetary level impact of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change or the local impact of Toronto’s urban expansion on forest biodiversity. This talk introduces three different scales of anthropogenic impacts on the environment and the implications of the increasingly complicated interface between human society and natural systems.