Author Archives: Tim Waring
How do people learn and share management strategies for invasive species and ticks?
Our 5 year social-ecological research project just got a local TV spot on News Center Maine. The spot highlights the ecological side of the research. On the social side, will explore how people learn management strategies for ecological threats like … Continue reading
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PhD Position: Cultural Adaptation to Environmental and Health Threats
The Applied Cultural Evolution (ACE) Laboratory at the University of Maine is seeking applicants for a fully-funded 4-year doctoral research assistantship on the adaptive cultural evolution of human behavior in a context of environmental and health threats. PhD research assistantship … Continue reading
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Human evolution of, in, and beyond the Anthropocene: outline of an applied science of beneficial social change.
Earlier this month I gave an invited lecture on human evolution in the Anthropocene at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, and explained how we can use the science of human evolution to make positive change for humans and the … Continue reading
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Climate hope and fear for Earth Day
Yesterday, I joined Maine author Nick Fuller Googins and Susie Arnold, of the Island Institute and host Cindy Han on the Maine Calling on Maine public radio. You can listen to the whole episode here: https://www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-calling/2024-04-22/earth-day-climate-future
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Climate Migration comes to Maine
Maine has struggled for an entire decade to barely maintain it’s population size, even as the state continued to age. This demography double whammy causes a severe ‘brain drain’ problem, and has hurt Maine’s economy, and cultural diversity. However, things … Continue reading
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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 