Dr. Manson combines environmental research, social science approaches, and geographic information science to understand complex human-environment systems. He is a NASA New Investigator in Earth-Sun System Science and a Resident Fellow at the U of M's Institute on the Environment. He was a NASA Earth System Science Fellow and received the Young Scholar Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America, and a University of Minnesota McKnight Land Grant Professorship. Prior to Dr. Manson's lecture, there will be a round table discussion from 10-11:30 am in 471 Grinter Hall. The discussion will be hosted by Dr. Eric Keys and and is open to all interested grad students and faculty.