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Affiliate Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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B.Sc. (Hons), Biology, Acadia University 1983
M.Sc. (distinction), Zoology, University of the Witwatersrand 1990
Ph.D., Animal Ecology, Uppsala University 1994<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email:\u00a0\u00a0pbarnard@uw.edu<\/a>;
phoebebarnard2018@gmail.com<\/a>
Phone: (360)914-2307\u00a0(cell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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phoebebarnard.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ResearchGate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACDI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FitzPatrick Institute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wiki profile<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UW Seattle Center for Environmental Politics bio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Intro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m an environmental and societal futures analyst and sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk and film co-producer.  I work at the intersection of science, society, sustainability, policy, planning and media storytelling.   I’m global campaign advisor to the Global Evergreeing Alliance, founding CEO and advisor at the Stable Planet Alliance, co-founder and convenor of the Global Restoration Collaborative, affiliate prof at UW Bothell and UW Seattle, and honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology and the African Climate and Development Initiative. I’m a member of the Club of Rome’s Planetary Emergency Partnership and other initiatives in the global futures and conservation spaces.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Teaching is one of life\u2019s greatest passions for me. I\u2019ve taught mainly masters students in both classroom and remote African field settings about environmental futures, conservation biology and climate change, natural history, bird ringing, ecology and evolutionary biology, global and national public policy, environmental leadership, and science communications around biodiversity and climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research\/Scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve worked on diverse sustainability and biodiversity issues, large and small — from ecoregional and national biodiversity and climate change strategic planning, policy and implementation, and the global status and trends of ecosystems and their ability to support human health, livelihoods and wellbeing (in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment), to ecological vulnerability and adaptation of endemic birds of the fynbos biome. I was previously lead scientist of the South African National Biodiversity Institute\u2019s Climate Change Bioadaptation Division and founding head of its Biodiversity Futures Program, co-leading an international and interdisciplinary global change ecology team of postdocs, PhD and MSc students, and coworkers from the universities of Durham, Cambridge University\/ RSPB, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, KwaZulu-Natal, Cape Peninsula Technology, and Queensland. Our work has shed light on patterns of biodiversity and endemism, past, present and future in southern Africa, and on endemics\u2019 vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in fragmented, fire-prone landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n