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Spatial Narratives Landscape App

Every place has a story. What if we could harness the analytical power of geographic software (GIS) for mapping space, with the rich, experiential qualities of place? And what if communities could write their own narrative? Such spatial narratives could…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterJune 10, 2022

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Landscape Ecology Online Course

Janet was one of the key contributing instructors to this online course in landscape ecology produced by ETH-Zurich and WSL in Switzerland, with nearly 12,000 enrolled since 2018 from around the world.

Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 24, 2022

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Side by Side in the Countryside

Could Cooperative Conservation be a Fix for Rural Land Demand? Many of Aldo Leopold's writings are remarkably timeless. He also modeled practices that today are major disciplines like wildlife ecology and restoration ecology. Rogue Amur maple sapling in Curtis Prairie,…

Janet Silbernagel BalsterMarch 11, 2021

Janet Silbernagel Balster, PhD

I bring extensive international and public lands experience to my practice. I have spent 25 years in academics as faculty of landscape architecture, GIS and conservation at two universities, where I led projects in Asia, Europe, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Lakes regions. Prior to being a professor, I worked as a landscape ecologist and landscape architect with the US Forest Service.

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Janet Silbernagel was one of 6 storytellers for Before the Abstract, a live science storytelling event hosted by Springer and Story Collider in conjunction with IALE Portland 2015. Listen to podcast here!

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Spatial Narratives Landscape App

Landscape Ecology Online Course

Side by Side in the Countryside

Janet Silbernagel Balster, PhD

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