Tracy Hruska
PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Political Ecology
History, Culture and Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities
I am primarily a qualitative environmental social scientist specializing in political ecology, but with broad training and professional experience in conservation biology, rangeland ecology, rural community development, and ecological restoration. My PhD included research in the United States, northern Mexico, and western China. Prior to my current position, I worked as a Habitat Restoration Project Manager in the Columbia River estuary, in the northwestern United States. Having recently moved from the United States to Finland, my research is now shifting to Fennoscandia and Europe more broadly.
Current Primary Research Project: MOTIVATE (Monitoring Of Terrestrial habitats by Integrating Vegetation Archive Time series in Europe) https://motivate-biodiversity.eu/project/ (Biodiversa+, 2024-2027)
Recent/Current Activities
- Teaching: "What is biodiversity in the age of extinction?: Interdisciplinary research approaches for the Anthropocene" (PhD intensive, co-led with Roger Norum, December 2024)
- Network: co-founder and organizer of UOulu's Critical Interdisciplinary Environmentalisms Network for early career researchers (with Eline Tabak)
Research interests
- habitat monitoring methods; pastoralism; environmental justice; ecological restoration; Indigenous sovereignty
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