Pam McElwee
@pammcelwee.bsky.social
Prof of Human Ecology @Rutgers. Co-Chair, IPBES Nexus Assessment, Ecosystems chapter lead NCA5 & IPCC author. Kansas/Oxford/Yale Alum. She/her. Brunch-eater. Mom. Working at science-policy interface to find solutions to biodiversity + climate crises 🌎☀️🐢
In addition, our recently published Nexus Assessment chapter 2 on drivers and trends notes how conflicts can drive biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health declines and climate impacts: zenodo.org/records/1734...
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In addition, our recently published Nexus Assessment chapter 2 on drivers and trends notes how conflicts can drive biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health declines and climate impacts: zenodo.org/records/1734...
The whole point of the Nexus Assessment is that we don't have to choose climate OR biodiversity, water, food and health. They are all part of the same problem, and solutions that tackle all these in an integrated way are the path forward. ipbes.net/nexus 14/14
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The whole point of the Nexus Assessment is that we don't have to choose climate OR biodiversity, water, food and health. They are all part of the same problem, and solutions that tackle all these in an integrated way are the path forward. ipbes.net/nexus 14/14
The good news is we have a lot of options to tackle health, food, water insecurity and biodiversity AS WELL AS climate all together - solutions like agroecology, sustainable diets, urban nature-based solutions, etc. We have a list of 71 different integrated solutions in our report! 13/
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The good news is we have a lot of options to tackle health, food, water insecurity and biodiversity AS WELL AS climate all together - solutions like agroecology, sustainable diets, urban nature-based solutions, etc. We have a list of 71 different integrated solutions in our report! 13/
The US Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) and @agu.org will host webinar TOMORROW at 1pm EST on how to be an expert reviewer for @ipcc.bsky.social reports. Please register & learn how to improve science policy assessments like upcoming Special Report on #ClimateChange and Cities!
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The US Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) and @agu.org will host webinar TOMORROW at 1pm EST on how to be an expert reviewer for @ipcc.bsky.social reports. Please register & learn how to improve science policy assessments like upcoming Special Report on #ClimateChange and Cities!
Please join USAA-IPCC and @agu.org next week for a webinar on how to engage with @ipcc.bsky.social reports as an Expert Reviewer! The Special Report on Cities and Climate Change opens for first review on Oct 17 - we'll discuss in our webinar how to register and what makes for good review comments.
October 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Please join USAA-IPCC and @agu.org next week for a webinar on how to engage with @ipcc.bsky.social reports as an Expert Reviewer! The Special Report on Cities and Climate Change opens for first review on Oct 17 - we'll discuss in our webinar how to register and what makes for good review comments.
Join us on Tuesday Sept 30 for a UNEP webinar on governance of nature-based solutions - some great perspectives on offer across researchers, decision-makers, and NGOs! Later on Thursday will be an additional webinar on Financing for #NBS
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Join us on Tuesday Sept 30 for a UNEP webinar on governance of nature-based solutions - some great perspectives on offer across researchers, decision-makers, and NGOs! Later on Thursday will be an additional webinar on Financing for #NBS
Only a few days left to comment on the proposed EPA Endangerment finding (Sept 22)! YOU TOO can do it - I submitted comment that DOE report EPA is relying on is flawed, particularly re: ecosystem impacts that cascade into human health & welfare. Pls add yours! www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
September 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Only a few days left to comment on the proposed EPA Endangerment finding (Sept 22)! YOU TOO can do it - I submitted comment that DOE report EPA is relying on is flawed, particularly re: ecosystem impacts that cascade into human health & welfare. Pls add yours! www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
In these trying times, all the more important to keep attention to all the ways in which our world is affected by #climatechange Join us next week at #NYCW for a session on how biodiversity, water, food and health intersect with climate!
September 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
In these trying times, all the more important to keep attention to all the ways in which our world is affected by #climatechange Join us next week at #NYCW for a session on how biodiversity, water, food and health intersect with climate!
Useful graphic from webcast on the multiple pathways by which GHGs, both directly and indirectly, impact human health and welfare
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Useful graphic from webcast on the multiple pathways by which GHGs, both directly and indirectly, impact human health and welfare
This is Daily Caller article criticizing the Natl Academy of Sciences for doing a fast track study of GHGs. But of course this criticism will not be directed at the shoddy DOE report written by 5 non-federal people in a couple months w/ no peer review & used for removing EPA endangerment finding 🙄
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is Daily Caller article criticizing the Natl Academy of Sciences for doing a fast track study of GHGs. But of course this criticism will not be directed at the shoddy DOE report written by 5 non-federal people in a couple months w/ no peer review & used for removing EPA endangerment finding 🙄
🚨Call for abstracts for AGU!🚨 Please submit to our session *SY045. The Importance of #Climate and Environmental Assessments for Decision-Making in Challenging Times* to discuss future directions for scientific assessments, esp given federal cancellation of NNA & #NCA6! What can we do next and how? 🧪
July 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨Call for abstracts for AGU!🚨 Please submit to our session *SY045. The Importance of #Climate and Environmental Assessments for Decision-Making in Challenging Times* to discuss future directions for scientific assessments, esp given federal cancellation of NNA & #NCA6! What can we do next and how? 🧪
Today the NYC #Biodiversity Task Force is launching the first-ever report on the state of nature in the city! It was my pleasure to be part of the review committee for this important effort that will pave the way for real action to recognize, value & conserve species in NYC! bit.ly/NYCbiodivers...
June 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Today the NYC #Biodiversity Task Force is launching the first-ever report on the state of nature in the city! It was my pleasure to be part of the review committee for this important effort that will pave the way for real action to recognize, value & conserve species in NYC! bit.ly/NYCbiodivers...
Happy to be speaking about the @ipbes.net Nexus assessment and the implications for South Asia as part of the M.S. Swaminathan Centenary Lectures tomorrow May 22. 4pm India time/ 6:30am EST. Register via QR below!
May 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Happy to be speaking about the @ipbes.net Nexus assessment and the implications for South Asia as part of the M.S. Swaminathan Centenary Lectures tomorrow May 22. 4pm India time/ 6:30am EST. Register via QR below!
Some fireworks to end the day here in Vietnam 🇻🇳
April 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Some fireworks to end the day here in Vietnam 🇻🇳
Here we go finally - some military units coming by and a couple fighter jets overhead for the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War and reunification of Vietnam 🇻🇳
April 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Here we go finally - some military units coming by and a couple fighter jets overhead for the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War and reunification of Vietnam 🇻🇳
A lot of patience from the 50th anniversary block party here at Pasteur and Ng Dinh Chieu- some ppl slept overnight to see the parade come by. Even tho we are only a couple blocks from Reunification Palace, all the action seems to be down there. Just now getting some units marching by us #Vietnam
April 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A lot of patience from the 50th anniversary block party here at Pasteur and Ng Dinh Chieu- some ppl slept overnight to see the parade come by. Even tho we are only a couple blocks from Reunification Palace, all the action seems to be down there. Just now getting some units marching by us #Vietnam
It’s midnight here in #Vietnam and folks are already staking out sidewalk space to see the parade that will pass by in morning on April 30th to mark #reunificationday and the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
April 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s midnight here in #Vietnam and folks are already staking out sidewalk space to see the parade that will pass by in morning on April 30th to mark #reunificationday and the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War
I too got a termination letter for my National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) faculty fellowship - just like everyone else awarded in 2025. The justification is presidential EOs, which have nothing to do with my project on the Vietnam War. It also appears to violate the award conditions I signed?
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I too got a termination letter for my National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) faculty fellowship - just like everyone else awarded in 2025. The justification is presidential EOs, which have nothing to do with my project on the Vietnam War. It also appears to violate the award conditions I signed?
Reminder that folks have less than a week to nominate themselves for an expert role in the IPCC Seventh Assessment cycle through the USAA-IPCC!
March 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reminder that folks have less than a week to nominate themselves for an expert role in the IPCC Seventh Assessment cycle through the USAA-IPCC!
Thank you to everyone who joined the webinar today to learn more about the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) and upcoming nominations process hosted by @agu.org ! Don’t forget to submit your package by April 4!
March 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined the webinar today to learn more about the US Academic Alliance for the IPCC (USAA-IPCC) and upcoming nominations process hosted by @agu.org ! Don’t forget to submit your package by April 4!
#standupforscience in Trenton NJ - Enthusiastic crowd on a very cold & windy day!
March 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
#standupforscience in Trenton NJ - Enthusiastic crowd on a very cold & windy day!
Your weekly reminder that USAID funds are still illegally in limbo, including to PEPFAR to combat HIV/AIDS, and this will continue to kill people until it is reversed (from pepfar.impactcounter.com)
March 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Your weekly reminder that USAID funds are still illegally in limbo, including to PEPFAR to combat HIV/AIDS, and this will continue to kill people until it is reversed (from pepfar.impactcounter.com)
I don't understand how I had to sign this conflict of interest form to serve as a scientific advisory board member to a federal agency, and meanwhile Elon Musk gets to muck around in all the agencies while his companies get MASSIVE federal contracts worth hundreds of millions?
February 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I don't understand how I had to sign this conflict of interest form to serve as a scientific advisory board member to a federal agency, and meanwhile Elon Musk gets to muck around in all the agencies while his companies get MASSIVE federal contracts worth hundreds of millions?
Amazing new strategy under the current administration to reduce the price of eggs - have no eggs available for sale at all! Brilliant! (Photo by me last night in NJ 😡)
February 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Amazing new strategy under the current administration to reduce the price of eggs - have no eggs available for sale at all! Brilliant! (Photo by me last night in NJ 😡)
How it started. How it's going.
So much free speech.
So much free speech.
February 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
How it started. How it's going.
So much free speech.
So much free speech.