Through his fellowship, he will develop and distribute a GIS training website containing tutorials engineered to improve the conservation capabilities of universities and land management institutions in Ethiopia. The fellowship work will be the foundation for his Peace Corps service and establish a model for future Peace Corps activities in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia RPCV Carl Reeder named Fellow at Colorado State University Center for Collaborative Conservation
Colorado State University Center for Collaborative Conservation Fellows Named
FORT COLLINS - This month, Colorado State University's Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) and the Warner College of Natural Resources awarded 16 fellowships to form the second annual cohort of Center for Collaborative Conservation fellows. These fellows include nine graduate students, three faculty members and four conservation practitioners. Additionally, several undergraduate CCC interns will be selected to work with the new CCC fellows.
The purpose of the CCC Fellows Program is to strengthen engagement among students, faculty, conservation practitioners and other stakeholders by promoting collaborative research, education and action on critical issues concerning conservation and livelihoods on landscapes around the globe. The CCC fellows are part of the new Collaborative Conservation Learning Network where principles and practice of collaborative conservation are developed, exchanged, tested and adapted.
The second cohort of CCC fellows will be working in 10 countries, including Mongolia, Kenya, Guinea Bissau, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Nepal, Ethiopia, Tanzania and the United States. Of the seven fellows who will be working in the United States, five will be working in communities across Colorado from the Front Range to the Western Slope, one will be working with a rancher's collaborative in Montana, and another with members of more than 30 tribal nations across the nation. The fellows also represent six departments and two colleges at CSU, and three non-governmental organizations doing conservation work in Colorado.
They are working on problems as diverse as the sharing of scarce water resources among agricultural and urban communities in Colorado, to conservation of the endangered Mongolian wild ass, to engagement of transboundary stakeholders in ecosystem services projects in Costa Rica and Panama. In Colorado, five fellows are working on better understanding how collaboratives work and how they can work effectively through using both market and non-market-based incentives for conservation.
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Carl Reeder
Reeder is a Peace Corps Masters International student studying geographic information systems (GIS) and forest science in the Department of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship at CSU, under the direction of Melinda Laituri. Through his fellowship, he will develop and distribute a GIS training website containing tutorials engineered to improve the conservation capabilities of universities and land management institutions in Ethiopia. The fellowship work will be the foundation for his Peace Corps service and establish a model for future Peace Corps activities in Ethiopia.
