How much funding is needed for conservation? Where should it go? To know, we need to move beyond cost proxies, and collect and share data on actual conservation expenses, as we show for the Colombian Andes: doi.org/10.1002/fee.26… ESA Frontiers Ana Reboredo Segovia, Ph.D.

Open position: Endowed Chair in Environmental Data Science. An exciting joint initiative by BU Earth & Environment and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Join us in the coolest building in town. bit.ly/3JGWztL

Job alert! We are looking for a postdoc interested in using spatio-temporal machine learning & causal inference for estimating land values and conservation costs for millions of properties: bit.ly/387cXoN
#nsf #ztrax #postdocjobs #teamcounterfactual #datascience #30by30

Biden's conservation commitment to protect 30% of the US by 2030 raises the question: which 30% to protect? Science Magazine explores this question with findings from our recent analysis: sciencemag.org/news/2021/02/p…

In his new #ExecutiveOrder , President Biden Joe Biden commits to protect 30% of US by 2030. What does this mean for #biodiversity ? Our new paper shows how diff. objectives lead to diff. priority areas for #conservation with trade-offs in cost & #climate mitigation: tinyurl.com/Biden30x30

BU Experts: Measuring the True Cost of Conservation bit.ly/2GIyaaT

Have you ever wondered how much land is worth in different parts of the United States, and how much it will cost to conserve it forever?

Here is my best estimate, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: bit.ly/2UcAJVL