Dr. Madhur Anand: Theoretical Ecology and Understanding Vegetation Dynamics

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Dr. Madhur Anand discusses her background as a theoretical ecologist and her research on understanding vegetation dynamics and the impacts of human behavior on ecosystems. She explains the role of theoretical ecologists in creating models to simplify complex ecosystems and explores the diversity and interactions of species in terrestrial and forest ecosystems. Additionally, she highlights the importance of understanding human behavior in achieving positive change in the world.

Environmental models! Poetry! Scientists who are poets! Novelists who are scientists! Art + science = an actual -ology. Creative Ecologist, climate scientist, theoretical ecologist, author and celebrated poet Dr. Madhur Anand sits on a porch with me on an island to chat about storytelling, narratives in science, forest beetles, carbon stability, human motives, hip waders, technology meets nature, absurdity, identity, overcoming writer’s or scientist’s' block, and how accepting ourselves can be contagious. Forecast: you begin jotting down poems on envelopes.

Visit the Anand Lab in Global Ecological Change & Sustainability and follow Dr. Anand on Google Scholar and X

Buy Madhur Anand’s collections of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) and Parasitic Oscillations (2022), and her book of prose This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020)

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