Rate My Professor Jonathan Salerno

Salerno’s contributions include securing funding as principal investigator or co-investigator on multiple National Science Foundation grants, such as those focused on climate services for smallholder farmers in Uganda and land system dynamics in southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, as well as National Geographic Society grants examining food security and community resource management in the African Albertine Rift. He co-directs the Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence and has received prestigious awards including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from 2010 to 2013 and the J. William Fulbright Student Award in 2014-2015. His influential publications feature 'Long-term evidence shows that crop-rotation diversification increases agricultural resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America' in One Earth (2020), 'Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence' in Ecology Letters (2013), 'Mobile phone use is associated with higher smallholder agricultural productivity in Tanzania, East Africa' in PLoS ONE (2020), 'A cross-country analysis of climate shocks and smallholder food insecurity' in PLoS ONE (2018), and 'Wildlife impacts and vulnerable livelihoods in a transfrontier conservation landscape' in Conservation Biology (2020). Salerno’s work advances understanding of social-ecological systems and informs conservation strategies for human coexistence with wildlife amid global environmental shifts.