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TISCHA A. MUÑOZ-ERICKSON
tamunozerickson@fs.fed.us
(928) 600-1613

I. EDUCATION

Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Sustainability, 2012 Focus: Policy and Governance Minor: Geography
Northern Arizona University
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M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Policy, 2004 With Distinction

Prescott College
B.A. in Environmental Studies, 1999 With Distinction

II. RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Environmental and adaptive governance; Knowledge and decision-making; Environmental science and policy; Urban socio-ecological systems; Societal and political dimensions of sustainability (networks, attitudes, perspectives, decision-making); Environmental and forest Policy; Collaborative management; Interdisciplinary research; Vulnerability/Resilience

III. POSITIONS

Research Social Scientist, US Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry -present 
Employee address: 1201 Ceiba St., San Juan, PR, 00926-1119Lead social scientist for IITF’s urban socio-ecological and sustainability research program.

Student Trainee, Chief’s Scholar Program, USFS, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 04/2012 to 11/2012 
Employee address: 1201 Ceiba St., San Juan, PR, 00926-1119Lead social scientist for IITF’s urban socio-ecological and sustainability research program.

Project Manager, San Juan ULTRA – ExPuerto Rican Conservation Foundation, 2009-2012Employee address: PO Box 362495, San Juan, PR, 00936-2495Direct and manage all aspects of the San Juan ULTRA-Ex social-ecological research program, including interdisciplinary research, science-policy interface, and stakeholder collaboration.

IGERT Fellow in Urban Ecology, National Science Foundation, Arizona State University, 2006-2009 
Employee address: 800 S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85281Graduate researcher conducting interdisciplinary research on urban social-ecological systems in Arizona and Puerto Rico.

IV. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITIONS

Invited presentations to National Science Foundation and other entities (see below) Chief’s Scholar Program, US Forest Service, 2012Dissertation Grant, IGERT, ASU, 2012
Dissertation Recruitment Grant, School of Sustainability, ASU, 2010Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2008 Travel Award for Sackler Colloquium, National Academy of Sciences, 2008Student Member Profile in the US Society of Ecological Economics Newsletter, 2007 IGERT Fellowship in Urban Ecology, National Science Foundation, 2006-2010 Departmental Travel Grant, School of Geographical Sciences, ASU, 2006EPA’s P3 Award: a Student Design Competition for Sustainability, 2004Meadows Award for Best Abstract, US Society for Ecological Economics, 2004
Nominee for the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award, NAU, 2004 T and E, Inc. Grant, NAU, 2004Research featured in NAU Today, NAU, 2001

V. RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Advancing Conservation in a Social Context, Arizona State Universityunder Dr. Clark Miller and Dr. Ann P. Kinzig, Spring 2008

Project Manager, Integrated Monitoring for Sustainability Project, Northern Arizona University, in collaboration with a local collaborative management group, The Diablo Trust, 2004-2006

Research Associate, ForestERA Project, Northern Arizona University, under Dr. Thomas D. Sisk, 2004-2006 

Graduate Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University, 2001-2006

Program Intern, Greater Flagstaff Forest Partnership, 2000-2001

General Development Intern, Grand Canyon Trust, 2000

Team Leader, AMERICORPS, Environmental Problem Solving in Lansing, 1995-1997

VI. RESEARCH GRANTS

National Science Foundation, “Social-Ecological Systems Change, Vulnerability, and the Future of a Tropical City. Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA), Co-PI and Project Leader, 2009-2011 - $300,000

Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium Grant, 2004 “Assessing the Effectiveness of the Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator (HEHI) as a Monitoring Tool to Evaluate the Adaptive Capacity of Community- Based Collaboratives”, Co-PI and Project Manager, $14,998

Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium Grant, 2004 “Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Collaboratively Managed Rangeland Ecosystems”, Co-PI, $18,380

VII. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Science-Society Research Collaborations for Sustainability Workshop, Co-organizer, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Spring 2009.

Resilience and Adaptive Governance Graduate Reading Group, Organized and facilitated with Dr. Charles Redman, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Spring 2008

Assessing Sustainability in Educational Institutions (independent study), Assistant Instructor with Dr. Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez, Prescott College, Fall 2000

Costa Rica and the New Millennium: Studies on Holistic Ecosystem Management in Developing
Nations 
(field course), Teaching Assistant with Dr. Bernardo Aguilar Gonzalez, Prescott College, Summer 2000

Tropical Biology: the Natural History of Costa Rica (field course), Teaching Assistant, Prescott College, Summer 2000

Principles of Ecological Economics (undergraduate seminar), Teaching Assistant, Prescott College, Spring 2000 

Ecology Laboratory (300-level course), Assistant to the Teacher Assistant, Michigan State University, Fall 1996

VIII. PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

(i) In print or submission

Muñoz-Erickson, T.AIn Review. Co-production of knowledge-action systems in urban sustainable governance:
the KASA approach. Environmental Science and Policy

Muñoz-Erickson, T.AIn Review. Multiple pathways to sustainability in cities: the case of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ecology and Society.

Cutts, B., S. Shutters, and T. A. Muñoz-Erickson. In review. Public inclusion in urban water governance as a
service of interorganizational networks. Conservation Letters

Lugo, A. E., T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, and B. Quintero. In review. Emerging synthesis themes from the study of a tropical city. Ecology and Society.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2012. How cities think: Knowledge-action systems analysis for urban sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Doctoral Dissertation. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ

Larson, K., A. Wutich, T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, S. Harlan. 2011. Cultural perspectives on water risks and policies in a southwestern city. Human Ecology Review 18 (1): 75-87

Miller, T. R. T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, and C. L. Redman. 2011. Transforming knowledge for sustainability: Towards more adaptive and engaged academic institutions. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (12) 2

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A., B. Cutts, L. Larson, K. Darby, M. Neff, A. Wutich, and B. Bolin2010. Spanning boundaries in an Arizona watershed partnership: information networks as tools for entrenchment or ties for cooperation? Ecology and Society 3 (15)

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A, B.J. Aguilar-Gonzalez, M.R. Loeser, and T.D. Sisk. 2010. A framework to evaluate ecological and social outcomes of collaborative management: Lessons from implementation with a northern Arizona collaborative group. Environmental Management 45 (1) 132-144.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. and J. Declet Barreto. “Puerto Rican Studies”. Entry. 2009. Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.

Cutts, B. B., T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, K. J. Darby, M. J. Neff, E. K. Larson, B. K. Bolin and A. K. Wutich. 2010.Ego network properties as a way to reveal conflict in collaboration's clothing. Procedia:Social and Behavioral Sciences 4:93-101

Declet Barreto, J. and T.A. Muñoz-Erickson. “The National Puerto Rican Coalition”. Entry. 2009.Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A, B.J. Aguilar-Gonzalez and T.D. Sisk. 2007. Linking ecosystem health indicators and collaborative management: A systematic framework to evaluate outcomes. Ecology and Society 12 (2): 6

Tilt, W., C. Conley, M. James, J. C. Lynn, T.A. Muñoz-Erickson, and P. Warren. 2006. Creating successful collaborations in the West: lessons from the field. In Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference on the Colorado Plateau. Van Riper III, C. and M. Sogee (eds.). University of Arizona Press. Tucson, Arizona.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A., B.J. Aguilar-González, M.R. Loeser and T. D. Sisk. 2006. Assessing the effectiveness of the Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator (HEHI) as a monitoring tool to assess the adaptive capacity of community-based collaboratives. Journal of the Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium. [online] URL: http://www.cbcrc.org/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=75

Fernández-Giménez, M., B. Aguilar-González, T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, and C. G. Curtin.2006. Assessing the adaptive capacity of collaboratively managed rangelands: A test of the concept and comparison of 3 rangeland CBCs. Journal of the Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium. [online] URL: http://www.cbcrc.org/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=75

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A., M.R. Loeser, and B.J. Aguilar-González. 2003. Identifying indicators of ecosystem health for a semiarid ecosystem: A conceptual approach. In The Colorado Plateau: Cultural, Biological and Physical Research. Van Riper III, C. and Cole, K.L. (eds.) University of Arizona Press. Tucson, Arizona.

(ii) In preparation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. and B. Cutts. The urban ecology of knowledge: Mapping networks of land use and green area knowledge for sustainable cities. To be submitted to Urban Ecosystems.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A., C. M. Concepción, and L. Santiago. Urban land use and green area governance in San Juan - Past, present, and future.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. Water governance in eastern Puerto Rico: Local perspectives on water issues, science, and sustainability.

Neff, M., B. Bolin, B. Cutts, K Darby, L. Larson, T. AMuñoz-Erickson, and A. Wutich. Does truth flow like water? The role of social networks in the flow of scientific understandings in a water management controversy

Sisk, T.D. , B. Dickson, J. Dryzek, H. Hampton, T. AMuñoz-Erickson, S. Niemeyer J. Prather, Y. Xu, D. Schlosberg. Ecological discourse and participatory science: Public engagement reduces conflict in forest policy development.

(iii) Non peer review articles

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. and T. Miller. 2009. A students’ perspective on building knowledge for sustainability. Newsletter of the International Society for Ecological Economics. February 2009. (Re-published in The Sustainability Review 2010, 1 (1))

IX. OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

Miller, C., T. A. Muñoz-Erickson and C. Monfreda. 2010. Knowledge systems analysis: A Report for the Advancing Conservation in a Social Context Project. Advancing Conservation in a Social Context. Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona.

Grove, M., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., O’Neil-Dunne, Boone, C., Groffman, Polsky, Pickett, S. Cadenasso. 2009. Plots, Pixels, and Parcels: Reassessing Sampling Strategies for Urban Ecology Research and Assessments. Report to the National Science Foundation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., A. E. Lugo, M. Figueroa and O. Ramos. 2008. Meeting Report: Setting an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda for San Juan ULTRA. International Institute of Tropical Forestry: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dickson, B., H. Hampton, A. Evans, E. Krasilovskly, T. AMuñoz-Erickson, S. Niemeyer J. Prather, J. Rundall, and Y. Xu. 2007. Multi-jurisdictional application of ForestERA landscape decision support tools in north-central New Mexico. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program.

Muñoz-Erickson, T., B. J. Aguilar-González, T.D. Sisk. M.R. Loeser and A. Richey. 2007. The Diablo Trust Integrated Monitoring for Sustainability (IMfoS) Project. Final Report to the Diablo Trust. Sisk Lab, Northern Arizona University and Prescott College.

Sisk, T.D., H.M. Hampton, J. Prather, E.N. Aumack, Y. Xu, M.R. Loeser, T. Muñoz-Erickson, B. Dickson, and J. Palumbo. 2004. Forest Ecological Restoration Analysis (ForestERA) Project Report, 2002– 2004. Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, Northern Arizona University.

Sisk, T.D., H.M. Hampton, Y. Xu, B. Dickson, T. Muñoz-Erickson, J. Palumbo, J. Rundal, and J. Anderson. Forest Ecosystem Restoration Analysis (ForestERA) Project. 2006. North-Central New Mexico Landscape Assessment Data Atlas. Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, Northern Arizona University.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. and B.J. Aguilar-Gonzalez. The use of ecosystem health indicators for evaluating ecological and social outcomes of the collaborative approach to management: the case study of the Diablo Trust. Prepared for the National Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium Workshop. Snowbird, Utah. Online Journal of the Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium(http://www.cbcrc.org/2003speakerpapers/Munoz%20and%20Aguilar%5B1%5D.v1%20for%2 web%20site.pdf)

Muñoz, T.A., M. VanHorne and C. Edminster. Grand Canyon Forest Partnership Research Guide. Grand Canyon Trust. Flagstaff, AZ 86001

X. PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

*Indicates author is a student. (i) Professional Meetings

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., C. Concepción, and R. Santiago Bartolomei. 2012. Institutional adaptive capacity and future visions of the city of San Juan. San Juan ULTRA Annual Meeting. San Juan, PR.

Cornell, L.* , Hall, M.H., and Munoz-Erickson, T. 2012. Creating Informed Land Use Scenarios: Analysis of Stakeholder Identified Areas of Conservation Value. Poster session presented at: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting; 2012 Feb 24-28; New York City, NY, USA.
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Cornell, L.* , Hall, M.H., and Munoz-Erickson, T. 2012. Creating Informed Land Use Scenarios: Analysis of Stakeholder Identified Areas of Conservation Value. Poster presentation for the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Spotlight on Research, April, 2012, Syracuse, NY.

Sisk, T. D., B. R. Noon, B. G. Dickson, S. E. Sesnie, and T. A. Muñoz-Erickson. 2011. Multi-scale monitoring of ecological systems can overcome persistent barriers to adaptive management. Colorado Plateau Biennial Conference. Flagstaff, AZ. Oral Presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., M.Cruz-Torres, D. García-Montiel, J. Guisti, M. Hall, Ch. Hall, M. Juncos-Gautier, Ariel E. Lugo, W. H. McDowell, E.Meléndez-Ackerman, E. Meléndez Colom, P.Méndez Lazaro, J. Ortíz-Zayas, R. Pontius, A. Ramírez, O. Ramos, L. E. Santiago, J. Seguinot-Barbosa, J. Zimmerman2011. San Juan ULTRA- Ex: Social-Ecological System Change, Vulnerability, and the Future of a Tropical City. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, U.S. Forest Service. Presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2010San Juan ULTRA-Ex: Social-ecological system change, vulnerability, and the future of a tropical City. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, U.S. Forest Service

Wiek, A., R. Kutter, T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, T. Miller, S. Moore, C. Thomas, L. Withycombe, C. Monfreda, C. Wong, and D. Iwaniec. 2010. A comparative evaluation of participatory scenario studies. Sustainability Science: Transformative Research Beyond Scenario Studies. AAAS Meeting. San Diego.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2009. Mapping complex knowledge systems for urban sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. and A. E. Lugo. 2009. Developing a transdisciplinary research agenda for urban sustainable governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico: the Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA) Network.15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands.

Miller, T. R. T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, and C. L. Redman. 2009. Reorganizing knowledge for sustainability: Adaptability in academic Institutions. 15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2009. A Process for Science-Society Interactions to Develop an Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA) Site in San Juan City, Puerto Rico. Central Arizona Project LTER. Arizona State University, Arizona. Poster presentation.

Neff, Mark, Bethany Cutts, Kate Darby, Libby Larson, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Amber Wutich, Bob Bolin. 2008. “Does truth flow like water? The role of social networks in the flow of scientific knowledge in an environmental governance dispute.” Presentation at: Society for the Social Studies of Science / European Association for the Study of Science and Technology joint meeting. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Munoz-Erickson, T. A. 2011. Mapping Knowledge Networks for Urban Sustainable Governance. Presented March 12 at the Resilience 2011 Conference: Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability; Navigating the Complexities of Global Change Poster presented October 8 at the 2nd Conference for Sustainable IGERTs, Socio-Ecological Transformations and Sustainability (C4SI2) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Burgess, E., R. Cleland, T. A. Munoz-Erickson and K. Parady. 2009. Arizona State University's IGERT in Urban Ecology: An IGERT in transition. Poster presented October 8 at the 2nd Conference for Sustainable IGERTs, Socio-Ecological Transformations and Sustainability (C4SI2) Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Cutts, B. B., T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, K. J. Darby, M. J. Neff, E. K. Larson, B. K. Bolin and A. K. Wutich. 2009. Ego network properties as a way to reveal conflict in collaboration's clothing. Poster presented at the August 17, 2009 Applications of Social Network Analysis, Zurich, Switzerland

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A.,T. R. Miller, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Adaptive learning and knowledge for Sustainability: Perspectives from the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium, Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development. Poster presentation.

Neff, M., B. Cutts, K. Darby, L. Larson, T. Munoz-Erickson, A. Wutich, and B. Bolin. 2008 Does truth flow like water? The role of social networks in the flow of scientific understandings in a water management controversy.” The Association of American Geographers annual meeting. Boston, MA.

Larson, E.K., B. Bolin, B. Cutts, K Darby, L. Larson, T. AMuñoz-Erickson, M. Neff, and A.
Wutich. 2008. The challenging task of water resources partnership building: insights on network properties and outcomes from both whole and egocentric analyses. Association of American Geographers. 
Paper presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A, K. Larson, and J. Declet. 2008. Opportunities and challenges to linking
science and policy in the Luquillo LTER: Preliminary findings on stakeholder perspectives of water governance and sustainability. Central Arizona Project LTER. Arizona State University, Arizona. 
Poster presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Niemeyer, S., Sisk, T. D., Schlosberg, D., and J. Dryzek.2007 "Does collaboration change stakeholder attitudes and preferences? A case study of participatory landscape analysis for forest restoration planning in New Mexico". International Association for Society and Natural Resources. Park City, Utah. Poster presentation.

Sisk, T.D. , B. Dickson, J. Dryzek, H. Hampton, T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, S. Niemeyer J. Prather, Y. Xu, D. Schlosberg. 2007. Ecological discourse and participatory science: Public engagement reduces conflict in forest policy development. Ecological Society of America. Paper presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A.2007. Incorporating Social Elements into the Long Term Ecological Research Program: Institutional Lessons from the LTER Network. Central Arizona Project LTER. Arizona State University, Arizona. Poster presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2006. Understanding Social Dimensions of Ecological Change in the Luquillo LTER: Opportunities for Engaging the Social Sciences. LTER All Scientists Meeting. Estes Park, Colorado. Poster presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A , Aguilar-Gonzalez B., Loeser, M. and T.D. Sisk. 2005. Assessing the effectiveness of the Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator (HEHI) as a monitoring tool to assess the adaptive capacity of community- based collaboratives. Paper presentation. Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium National Workshop. Sedona, Arizona.

Schlosberg, D., T. A. Muñoz-Erickson, T. D. Sisk, S. Niemeyer and J. Dryzek. 2005. . What does collaboration change? A study of participant values, policy positions, and opinions of others on forest restoration issues in northern New Mexico. Paper presentation. Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium Meeting National Workshop. Sedona, Arizona.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A , Loeser, M., Aguilar-Gonzalez B. and T.D. Sisk. 2005. A tool for sustainability: Evaluating outcomes with indicators of ecosystem health. Environmental Protection Agency P3 Award Competition. National Mall, Washington D.C. Poster presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A and B., Aguilar-Gonzalez. 2004. Linking ecosystem health indicators and collaborative- based management: a case study on the resilience of a rangeland ecosystem in Northern Arizona. International Society for Ecological Economics. Montreal, Canada. Paper presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A, Ostergren, D., Aguilar-Gonzalez, B. and T.D. Sisk.2004. Integrating ecological and social measures to evaluate collaboration: a systematic framework. Western Social Science Association. Salt Lake City, Utah. Paper presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A , Loeser, M., Aguilar-Gonzalez B. and T.D. Sisk. 2004. Assessing ecosystem health: a framework for integrating information across multiple scales. International Association for Landscape Ecology. Las Vegas. Poster presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2004. Quantifying sustainability: the use of ecosystem health indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of collaborative management. Merriam Powell Seminar. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Paper presentation.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A , Aguilar-Gonzalez B., Sisk T. D. and M. Loeser. 2003. An integrated evaluation framework to assess the sustainability of a semi arid grassland system managed through a collaborative approach. 7th Biennial Conference on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, Arizona. Paper presentation

Loeser, M.R., Sisk, T.D., Crews, T. E. and T.A. Munoz-Erickson. 2003. Grazing for a greener future: Assessment of alternative grazing strategies in desert grasslands. Sixth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau Proceedings. Flagstaff, AZ. Paper presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. and B. Aguilar-Gonzalez. 2003. The use of ecosystem health indicators for evaluating ecological and social outcomes of the collaborative approach to management: the case study of the Diablo Trust. National Workshop on “Evaluating Methods and Environmental Outcomes of Community-based Collaborative Processes”, Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium. Snowbird, Utah. Paper presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. and T.D. Sisk. 2003. The use of ecosystem health indicators in the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of collaborative-based management approaches to restoration. Southwest Fire Initiative. Flagstaff, Arizona. Poster presentation

Aguilar-Gonzalez, B. and T.A. Munoz-Erickson.2002. Interdisciplinary indicators, ecosystem health and participatory management: further evolution and case study comparisons using the HEHI in managed ecosystems. International Conference on Ecosystem Health. Washington D.C. Paper presentation

(ii) Invited Talks and Lectures

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. . 2012. Knowledge Systems Analysis. SESYNC Workshop on Linking Socio-Environmental Science to Socio-Environmental Change. Washington D.C.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A 
.2012. Navigating the city’s institutional landscape: the KASA approach. UPR-IGERT Brown Bag, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2012. Building Knowledge-Action Systems for Urban Sustainability: Interdisciplinarity and Reflexivity in San Juan ULTRA-Ex. LTER Mini-Symposium, National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A 
.2011. Urban Green Area Governance in San Juan: History, Perspectives, and Networks. Guest Lecturer for Urban Environment Graduate Course, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A .2011Social-Ecological Issues in a Tropical City and the Challenge of Building Knowledge for Urban SustainabilityUPR IGERT Program Advisory Committee Meeting. University of Puerto Rico.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A2011. Effective Research Collaborations: Lessons from the Field. IGERT Program, University of Puerto Rico. UPR-IGERT Retreat. Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín, PR

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A 2009Development of socio-ecological research in San Juan: The Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA) Network. LTER Network Workshop on Socio-Ecological Research Methods. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A 2009. Workshop on Science and Technology Studies for Sustainability. National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.

Cutts, B. , K. Darby, L. Larson, T. AMuñoz-Erickson, M. Neff, B. Bolin, and A. Wutich. 2009. Social networks, environmental governance and science in the Big Chino Water Project: An interdisciplinary research project of the IGERT in Urban Ecology Program. Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. Paper presentation

Redman, Charles L. Thaddeus R. Miller and Tischa Muñoz-Erickson. 2007. Fostering epiphanies: Adaptive cycles and knowledge for sustainability.” Resilience: International Science and Policy Conference, 4/14-17/08, Stockholm, Sweden. Resilience Alliance, Annual Meeting, Corsica.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2007. Water governance in eastern Puerto Rico: Local perspectives on water issues, sustainability and the HELP Program. Global Comparative Knowledge Research Seminar.

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. and T. Miller. 2007. Adaptive learning at SOS: Fostering intellectual and organizational change for sustainability.” ASU School of Sustainability Colloquium Series, Tempe, AZ

Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. 2006. Toward environmental social science: Integrative research in the Luquillo LTER. Luquillo LTER Annual Meeting. University of Puerto Rico. San Juan, PR.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A , T. D. Sisk, M. Loeser, B. Aguilar-Gonzalez, T. Crews, and J. Palumbo. 2005. Grassland research and monitoring: Fostering collaborative capacity through sciencePanel on Creating Successful Collaboration for Rangeland Conservation by the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Program and Foundation. Eight Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau Proceedings. Flagstaff, AZ. Panel presentation

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A . 2004. Evaluating the ecological and social outcomes of collaborative management: The Holistic Ecosystem Health Indicator for monitoring effectiveness. Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium Evaluation Workshop. Summit County, CO., 2004

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A . 2004. Participant in expert workshop on evaluating outcomes of community-based collaboratives. Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium. Richmond, VA.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2005. Presenter at a Diablo Trust monthly meeting on research and monitoring issues and approaches, 2005

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2001 – 2005. Field trip facilitator for Prescott College Environmental Law course on collaborative approaches to land management.

Muñoz-Erickson, T.A. 2005. Field trip facilitator for a Prescott College Ecological Economics course on the alternative economic valuation of small diameter timber for ponderosa pine forest restoration. 


XI. ADDITIONAL WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ATTENDED

Coordinated San Juan ULTRA-Ex Annual Meetings in 2010, 2011, and 2012
Organized and facilitated an international student workshop on ‘Reorganizing Knowledge for Sustainability’,

     Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden, 2008
Liphe4 Summer School on “Participatory and Analytical Tools for Sustainability”, Spain, 2006
Modeling for Environmental Outcomes, Systems Dynamic Modeling, NAU, 2005

XII. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Guest Editor for Special Issue in Cities and the Environment (CATE) JournalArticle Referee: Journal of Ecosystem Health, Ecology and Society, Journal of Environmental Management, and Environmental ManagementProject on Global and Comparative Knowledge, CSPO, Arizona State University
Resilience Alliance Young Scholars (invited membership)
Ecological Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Society for Ecological Economics
Advisory Committee for the Diablo Trust IMfoS Project
Community-based Collaborative Research Consortium
Advisory Committee for the Community –based Collaborative Research Consortium’s book on
Knowledge Synthesis of the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management