Paula Ungar Started Position as Senior Environmental Social Scientist at the Chicago Field Museum
18.10.2022
In June 2022, former fellow Paula Ungar started working as a senior environmental social scientist at the Keller Science Action Center, Chicago Field Museum, as part of the center’s Andes Amazon Program. This program translates interdisciplinary research into action for conservation and human well-being. As part of their work, the team develops rapid inventories, which are collaborative surveys of places in the Amazon basin that are unique in biological and cultural terms. These inventories, carried out by experts from different disciplines and origins, produce rigorous reports and support local and national initiatives that contribute to caring for the Amazon rainforest and its peoples. The team also seek to initiate longer-term participatory conservation processes with local communities and institutions. They also work at a landscape level bringing together knowledge, social organizations, and government institutions at different scales—from the local to the international—in order to contribute to the creation of a biocultural corridor along the Putumayo River. This river is one of the last free-flowing, well-conserved Amazonian rivers. Its basin is shared by four countries (Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil) and is home to more than twenty Indigenous peoples.
The RCC would like to congratulate Paula on her new position.