A conversation with RNS Director Dr. Nancy Shackelford

My research covers restoration ecology, stats, data, plants, mites, and landscape ecology. Though I found restoration on accident, I believe it's the most hopeful, useful pathway in the midst of our current ecological woes. My passion is to make restoration outcomes more predictable by bringing together knowledge through meta-analysis and synthesis, and by applying generalizable ecological concepts to the successes and failures we see on the ground.