Erle Ellis

Erle Ellis is Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where he directs the Laboratory for Anthropogenic Landscape Ecology. His research investigates the ecology of human landscapes at local to global scales towards informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Recent work examines long-term global changes in human ecology (anthromes; anthroecology), global synthesis of local knowledge (GLOBE) and 3D landscape mapping (Ecosynth). He teaches environmental science and landscape ecology at UMBC, has taught ecology at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and is the author of Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction.