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A variety of activities, from timber harvest to recreation, takes place on natural and working lands (including wildlands, working forests, and farmland) in the United States. We are looking for a graduate or undergraduate student to join the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute, supporting our work on a USDA-funded project to evaluate the effects of management activities on biodiversity and carbon outcomes. This project will help to inform the federal government’s definition and management of conserved lands, based on the activities occurring and their likely impacts on key conservation outcomes. In an earlier phase of this work, we completed a rapid review of synthesis literature to assess the effects of a broad range of management activities on biodiversity and carbon (summarized in this report). In the second phase of work, we will be digging deeper into a few management activities, beginning with timber harvesting and fishing, and performing new quantitative synthesis to fill gaps identified in the first phase of work. The student will support this project through literature review (including searching, screening literature based on defined criteria, and extracting relevant information from selected items), analyzing data, and drafting written products summarizing the project and results. Key tasks • Searching academic literature, reports from government agencies and NGOs, and online resources for information and data on specific topics described above • Screening search results following a standardized process to identify literature meeting predefined criteria • Extracting relevant information from selected literature into a database • Reaching out to subject matter experts for feedback and additional information • Summarizing and communicating results of research |