Eric Schniter

Unido: 05.sep.2021 Última actividad: 26.mar.2024

As a naturalist I am perennially in awe of the diverse forms of life I encounter. As an ecologist I use this awe of encountered life as a springboard to considering the ways nature's complexity organizes into a self-balancing system. And it’s in this pursuit of understanding nature, testing our proposed understandings, and spreading the joy of its encounters that I’ve increasingly focused my efforts.

I arrived at my interest in nature and ecological systems via my interests in human evolution, behavior, and human relationships with the natural world. Humans have always depended on nature for their survival, and despite the industrial obfuscation of this truth from people’s daily experiences in complex market societies, human wellbeing will continue to depend on the wellbeing of nature. I share in the hope that we can rewild, by inviting nature back into our suburban and urban spaces, by practicing natural farming, and by allowing nature to thrive without human interference in wild places.

I teach evolutionary anthropology at the California State University Fullerton, behavioral economics at Chapman University, and conduct research on human behavior and our relationships to the natural world. In 2021, after completing the Desert Sands and Sky Islands California Naturalist course I was certified as a California Naturalist by the University of California Riverside.

Since 2021 I have been making regular photographed contributions of organismal observations to iNaturalist, participating in several iNaturalist projects (e.g. 2021 California Desert Naturalists, Coachella Valley Fire Followers, Nature at Home in Mentone, Project Porch-Light), and collaborating with the University of California Riverside Palm Desert Center’s Center for Conservation Biology Research Team.

My website: https://sites.google.com/site/ericschniter/

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