Principal Investigators
Senior Personnel
gRADUATE STUDENTS
- Ren Cao (Ph.D. student 2021 – Current)
- Xiaoxiao Wei (Ph.D. student 2023 – Current)
- Brenna Fowler (M.S. student, 2022 -Current)
- My-Thu Tran (Ph.D. student, 2022-2023)
- Blair Miraka (M.S. student, 2019 – 2021)
- Tracy (Yanjing) Liu (M.S. student, 2020-2022)
Latest News
- 07-05-2024 – August field trip to Chitwan by Ren Cao
- 04-25-2024 – Dr. An gave lecture at UNC Charlotte
- 04-03-2024 – Dr. An took office as the President of IALE-NA
- 03-20-2024 – Auburn University IRB approved the research protocol after transfer
- 08-17-2023 – Dr. An Joined Auburn University
Postdoctoral fellows
- Eve Bohnett
- Rong Zhang
(NSF Website)
Brief Introduction
This project (NSF website) seeks to advance the understanding of the impact of payments for ecosystem services (PES), a global conservation approach that incentivizes users of essential natural resources to protect the related ecosystems. In recent decades these programs have increased in popularity, and an increasing number of parallel PES programs have been deployed to mitigate environmental degradation and the over-exploitation of natural resources. PES programs are often implemented concurrently in the same temporal and spatial context, yet little understanding exists about the mechanisms, pathways, and social and ecological effects of such interacting, parallel PES programs.