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Today the Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Alejandra Echeverri, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and DSE faculty advisor, is a recipient of the 2026 Sustainability Science Award. The award honors “ Biocultural vulnerability of traditional crops in the Indian Trans-Himalaya," which was published in Science Advances last year. According to ESA, this research "makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science of ecosystem and regional sustainability through the integration of ecological and social sciences." Authors include...

Professor Echeverri teaches in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management and is an expert in the interrelationships between people, culture, and biodiversity.

We’re excited to announce a new, full-time position opening for a Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist, who will focus on biodiversity and bioacoustics research. Apply now. Around the world, researchers, Indigenous communities, and environmental practitioners rely on data to understand ecosystems, monitor biodiversity, and respond to accelerating environmental change. Yet many of the tools and workflows needed for this work remain difficult to use, inaccessible, or limited in scalability. At DSE, we’re working to help change that and looking for someone to join us in building the next...

Join the conversation at "Tech for TEK: Implementing Biodiversity Conservation with AI, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty" on Monday, October 28 in Cali, Colombia.