Understanding Human Transformation of Earth
Talk by Dr. Erle Ellis, GES
Location
Information Technology/Engineering : 229
Date & Time
September 25, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Bringing Social, Information, and Natural Sciences Together to Understand Human Transformation of Earth
Dr. Erle Ellis
Professor, UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
Dr. Erle Ellis, principal investigator of a UMBC-led "massively collaborative" project published in Science Magazine will describe how archaeologists, geographers, and information science came together to show that human societies began transforming Earth thousands of years earlier than known by Earth scientists -- evidence for an earlier Anthropocene.
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