Principal Investigators
Senior Personnel
gRADUATE STUDENTS
- Ren Cao (Ph.D. student, Auburn University, 2021 – Current)
- Xiaoxiao Wei (Ph.D. student, Auburn University, 2023 – Current)
- Brenna Fowler (M.S. student, San Diego State University, 2022 -2024)
- My-Thu Tran (Ph.D. student, San Diego State University, 2022 – Current)
- Blair Mirka (M.S. student, San Diego State University, 2019 – 2021)
- Tracy (Yanjing) Liu (M.S. student, San Diego State University, 2020-2022)
- Haitao Lyu (Ph.D. student, University of Texas Dallas, 2020 – Current)
- Hao Chen (Ph.D. student, University of Texas Dallas, 2023 – Current)
- Umme Kulsum (Ph.D. student, University of Texas Dallas, 2022 – Current)
- Zheng Shi (Ph.D. student, University of Texas Dallas, 2019 – Current)
Latest News
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- 08-30-2024 – Dr. Fang Qiu gave lecture at Auburn
- 08-25-2024 – Ph.D. student Ren Cao completed field trip
- 07-22-2024 – Brenna Fowler defended her master’s thesis.
- 07-05-2024 – August field trip to Chitwan by Ren Cao
- 04-25-2024 – Dr. An gave lecture at UNC Charlotte
Postdoctoral fellows
- Eve Bohnett (University of Florida)
- Rong Zhang (Auburn University)
(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.