Dr. Reed Noss is Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Central Florida. The focus of Dr. Noss’s research program for more than two decades has been on systematic conservation planning on regional scales. He has designed and directed such studies in Florida, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Rocky Mountains, and several regions of Canada, and has been an advisor to similar projects throughout North America and parts of Latin America, Europe, and Australia. Conservation planning includes field research and population modeling of imperiled taxa and other focal species as well as considerations of ecosystem representation and management. Increasingly it encompasses maintenance or restoration of ecological processes, accommodation of compatible human uses, and adaptation to climate change (especially sea-level rise).
