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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Nadkarni about disturbance and recovery in ecological and human systems.
A lifelong interest and concern for trees led Dr. Nalini Nadkarni to an academic career to study and understand trees, and to innovate activities and programs that raise awareness of the importance of trees and nature to others.
Dr. Nadkarni is a rainforest ecologist, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a science communicator. She was a faculty member at The Evergreen State College for 20 years, and in 2011, joined the University of Utah as a Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Science and Mathematics Education. She received her B.S. degree from Brown University and her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, the 2011 NSF Public Service Award, and the 2012 AAAS Award for Public Engagement, and the 2013 Carr Medal for Conservation. Her research concerns the ecological roles of canopy-dwelling biota in forest ecosystems. She has published over 100 scientific articles and four scholarly books.
She is deeply interested in public engagement of science, and has given two TED talks, and has been highlighted in magazines such as National Geographic, Glamour, and Playboy Magazine. She created the “Research Ambassador Program” to train scientists to engage the public in non-traditional venues, such as churches, pre-schools, tattoo parlors, and sports stadiums. In 2005, she co-founded the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which brings science, scientists, and nature to incarcerated men and women, and which is now being expanded to a national level.