Meredith Root-Bernstein

Meredith Root-Bernstein is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist with a PhD in Ecology and several years' experience working with human geographers and anthropologists. Her research focuses on conservation and restoration of anthropogenic mediterranean-climate socio-ecological systems. At the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), she has been working on developing interdisciplinary methodologies, such as multi-species ethnography and natural history practice, and on exploring the linkages between anthropological and ethological/ecological theories in areas such as wayfinding, place-making, and practice. She is currently working on two projects: a multifunctional wetland restoration in the Po Delta, Italy, and the restoration and rewilding of espinal habitat in central Chile. Meredith obtained her AB from Princeton University, MRes and MSc from the University of Oxford, and PhD from the Universidad Católica de Chile.