Explore Ecological Security at ESA Annual Meeting – August 9, Portland
Thrilled to share that I will be giving the Recent Advances Plenary Lecture at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America on August 9 in Portland, Oregon! In my remarks I will be highlighting the need to embed ecological disruption into modern security doctrine and architecture. Moreover, I will underscore the great need for ecological security research, as discussed in the recent report Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security. I’m eager to discuss …
Candida auris and its Alarming Climate-Linked Acceleration
The fungal pathogen Candida auris has become a significant global health concern, posing a severe ecological security threat worldwide. As a result of its rapid and widespread emergence, almost certainly driven by climate change and ecological disruption, this highly virulent …
El Niño 2023 Will Pose Security Concerns Worldwide
El Niño 2023 looks probable, with implications for human, national, and global security dimensions. (Update 5/16: El Niño is knocking on the door! Security community should be on alert!) ENSO, or the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is a periodic climate pattern …
El Niño 2023 Lurks
A story in three parts, as El Niño 2023 lurks, with implications for security …
The Menace of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Overabundance
The overabundance of nutrients is a major element of ecological disruption, primarily due to human activity’s impact on the nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycles. One example is the recent decades’ high dependence on synthetic fertilizers, feed, and intensive farming methods …
New Report Out Now: Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security
After several months of writing and editing, out now is a report I coauthored with Dan Smith, Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Titled Five Urgent Questions on Ecological Security, therein we call for the science, security, …
Ecological Security in the 2023 Annual Threat Assessment
On March 8, 2023, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and senior leaders of the U.S. intelligence community appeared as witnesses before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for this year’s hearing of the Intelligence Community’s 2023 Annual Threat …
