Parr CV
Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009
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Speaker: Terry Parr twp -at- ceh.ac.uk Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK |
Title of the talk: Long-term ecosystem research and monitoring: biodiversity and ecosystem services or another small contribution to sustainability? (pdf: 24MB)
Biosketch
I’m currently based at the UK’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology site at Lancaster.
Research Background: A D. Phil at the University of York on plant and soil faunal succession. After this I joined the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology doing research on woodland change, wetland dynamics, vegetation management, climate change impacts and environmental indicators. From 1990 to 1993 I was seconded to the Department of the Environment (now Defra) where I provided scientific advice to policy and managed a range of research projects including 'Countryside Survey 1990’. Since 1995 I have been the Co-ordinator of the UK Environmental Change Network.
Current Research and Development areas: My main areas of research are on the detection, interpretation and forecasting of climate change impacts on ecosystems and the development of indicators of environmental change – although the truth is I’m now more of a science research administrator than a researcher. Hence, I am heavily involved in the development of International Networks for Long-term Ecological Research and was co-ordinating till April 2009 the EC Network of Excellence to create a “Long-term Biodiversity, Ecosystem Research and Awareness Network” (ALTER-Net). I am also closely involved in the development of international LTER networks in Europe (LTER-Europe) and globally (ILTER).
