{"id":3480,"date":"2019-01-31T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T13:26:18","slug":"2019-dice-annual-lecture-surviving-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/01\/31\/2019-dice-annual-lecture-surviving-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 DICE Annual Lecture &#8211; Surviving The Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that this year&#8217;s DICE Annual Lecture is being given by Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/biology\/research\/ecology-evolution\/chris-d-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Thomas<\/a> FRS from the University of York, titled &#8216;Surviving the Anthropocene: a story of biological gains and losses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more complicated truth? Combining a naturalist&#8217;s eye for wildlife with an ecologist&#8217;s wide lens, Chris Thomas re-examines humanity&#8217;s relationship with nature, and reminds us that the story of life is the story of change.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will be held on <strong>Thursday 7th March<\/strong> between <strong>18:30 and 20:00<\/strong> in Keynes Lecture Theatre 1 on the Canterbury campus. The event is <strong>free and open to all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3508 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/01\/Thomas_Cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Chris Thomas\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/01\/Thomas_Cropped-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/01\/Thomas_Cropped-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/01\/Thomas_Cropped.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Professor Chris Thomas is\u00a0interested in understanding how humans have transformed the biological world and how humans might protect the world\u2019s remaining biodiversity. Chris was the first to estimate how climate change might endanger biodiversity at a global scale and has provided evidence that species move their geographic distributions as the climate changes.\u00a0He is interested in how climate change, land use change (habitat fragmentation), the arrival of non-native species (invasions) and persecution (hunting) alter the distributions of species, aiming to quantify gains in diversity as well as losses.<\/p>\n<p>Chris has had strong influence on the development of policy and practical conservation strategies in the areas of\u00a0climate change\u00a0and\u00a0habitat fragmentation, and\u00a0has developed conservation strategies (including the benefits of connected landscapes and moving species where required) that will enable species to survive climate change, biological invasions and other environmental challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that this year&#8217;s DICE Annual Lecture is being given by Professor Chris Thomas FRS from the University of York, titled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/01\/31\/2019-dice-annual-lecture-surviving-the-anthropocene\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,6598,124,6600],"tags":[146887,6599,6598],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}