STEPHEN THOMFORDE AND RESILIENCE SEED SYSTEMS

I have 25+ years' experience in design and installation of ecological restorations, totaling more than 4000 acres across the Midwest, and including wetland, shallow water lakes, prairie, and savanna projects. My research employs a framework based on thermodynamics, ecosystem phenomenology, catastrophic regime shifts, alternative stable states, keystone species, holons, hierarchy, far from equilibrium dynamics, and resilience. This framework provides keen insight into the ecological process we seek to restore and allows me to design cutting-edge management and research projects. My ideas and plans are 10 years ahead of my peers. I also possess a strong background in natural history, a lost academic of our current educational systems, and I question our ability to understand natural resource management without a strong knowledge of natural history. I have a passion for teaching and desire to empower my students to develop their own frameworks, based on general principle, grounded in..

Also known as: Stephen Thomforde

Primary location: Cannon Falls United States