Photo: Professor Director, Neotropical Montology Collaboratory Contact info Email: fsarmien@uga.edu Office: Geog-Geol Bldg, 210 Field Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, 110 Office Hours: By appointment only Neotropical Montology Collabortory Lab phone: 706-542-2856 Research Interests: Montology, Neotropical mountains, critical biogeography, political ecology, socioecological landscapes and seascapes. Current projects dealing with climate change adaptation, mountainscape conservation, ecological legacies, and restoration of tropandean landscapes. Neotropical Montology Collaboratory Integrative Conservation Program Odum School of Ecology Google Scholar profile CV: Fausto Sarmiento Vitae_0.pdf (512.79 KB) Fausto O. Sarmiento, Ph.D., is a professor of Mountain Science in the Geography Department at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is also Courtesy Faculty in the School of Ecology and Honors Faculty mentor. Previously Dr. Sarmiento served as Co-Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and as Director of the Office of International Education. Dr. Sarmiento has been involved in major disciplinary and institutional change processes to promote sustainable development in mountain environments and in restructuring evaluation criteria used for landscape conservation in the Tropical Andes. He was Regional Editor for Latin America for the journal Mountain Research and Development and is an Editorial Board member of Pirineos, the Journal of Mountain Ecology, the Journal of Mountain Science, the Journal of High Andean Research, and the Annals of the AAG. He serves on advisory boards of global mountain organizations and represented the International Human Dimension Program of Global Environmental Change to the Science Board of the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). He was chair of the Mountain Geography Specialty Group (2002-3 and 2014-5) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), is chair of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on Mountain Studies, and former president of the Andean Mountains Association (AMA). Currently, he is deputy Vice Chair (Capacity Building) of the Mountain Biome of the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA) and a member of the Protected Landscapes Task Force in the World Conservation Union (IUCN). During his 34 years of experience in the developing world, particularly in academic leadership, administration, research, and education, starting as a high school biology teacher and ending as Executive Director of the National Museum of Natural History in Ecuador, Dr. Sarmiento has distinguished himself as a leader in his field, receiving recognitions and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship on International Education and Mountain Research to Japan, a career award from the AAG, and the prestigious Fulbright Global Scholar Award. He has published widely with more than sixteen books and a few dozen journals devoted to higher education, mountain research, conservation of biodiversity, environmental planning, ecological theory, and mountain community development; he presented keynote speeches in International Congresses and Symposia, developed numerous national presentations and international workshops; and demonstrated success in fund-raising and institutional strategic planning. He is a consultant to UNESCO and IUCN in matters related to mountain conservation and biocultural landscapes. He has been invited as an international Juror for Nature Conservation Awards and as an evaluator and professor of international masters’ courses on Rural Development and Environmental Planning in Europe and Latin America. He also provided technical assistance, teaching, and evaluation services to several universities, including Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. He has written four Spanish language textbooks widely used in the region. He is member of the board of the UNU-Satoyama Initiative, the IUCN-WCPA Mountains and Protected Landscapes groups, and chairs the IGU's Commission of Mountain Studies. Education Education: BS (1988), Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito MS (1991), The Ohio State University, Columbus Ph.D. (1996), The University of Georgia, Athens Of Note Of note: 2022 Fulbright global Scholar Award to Austria, Japan, and Chile. 2021 SCL Fellow 2020 Chair of the Commission of Mountain Studies, International Geographical Union 2019 Bary Bishop Career Award from the Association of American Geographers' Mountain Geography Specialty Group. Convener of the International Conference on "Past Plant Diversity, Climate Change and Mountain Conservation" held in Cuenca, 2019. Co-Chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Mountain Research Network. Nova Friburgo, 2018. "Geographer Fausto Sarmiento, arguably the most prodigious commentator on mountain geography today" Recognized by Emeritus Professor Nigel J.R. Allan (UC-Davis) in his recent AAG Book Review of Matloff's "No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands" Keynote speaker on Ecology and Climate Change at the XII Latin American Botany Congress. Quito, 2018. Inaugural keynote speaker at the IV Latin American Congress of Ecology Keynote speaker at the I International Congress of Biodiversity Conservation of the Andes and the Amazon Chaired the workshop on Mountain Protected Areas for the first Latin American Congress of National Parks. In 1999, the Honor Society for International Scholars Phi Beta Delta, Tau Chapter, recognized him as the "Outstanding Faculty of the Year". In 2001, the Mountain Geography Specialty Group (MGSG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) gave him the "Outstanding Recent Accomplishment Award" for his work "in fostering sustainable development in mountain environments". In 2007, the UGA-Student Government Association recognized him for excellence in teaching and valuable contributions to students. Executive Director of the Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences in Quito and chief ecologist consultant at AECOTAL in Ecuador. In the United States, he was co-Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies until 2002, when he became Director if the Office of International Education of the University of Georgia until 2005. In 2004, Dr. Sarmiento participated in the II Cultural Encounter of the Americas to discuss Identity and Cultural Landscapes. He was selected as juror for the BBVA Foundation for the prestigious International Prize on Actions on Biodiversity Conservation. The International Center for Mediterranean Studies in Zaragoza invited him as juror for the graduating class of 2005 of Integrated Environmental Planning and rural development. In addition, he received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the International Education Administrator Program to Japan and was named Fulbright Scholar Ambassador. Keynote speaker at the Global Mountains session in the IGU Thematic meeting, "Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges" centennial anniversary of the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, 2018. Course Instruction Courses Regularly Taught: GEOG 8810 GEOG 3290 GEOG 2250H GEOG 1125E GEOG 4910 Research Selected Publications: Peer-reviewed journal articles Kong, I., Sarmiento FO, Mu L. 2023. Crowdsourced Text Analysis to Characterize the U.S. National Parks Based on Cultural Ecosystem Services. Landscape and Urban Planning, 233: 104692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104692 *Sarmiento, F.O., Inaba, N., Iida, Y., Yoshida, M. 2023. Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage. Geographies, 3(1): 19-39. https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3010002 Kong, I, Sarmiento, F.O. 2022. Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador. Ecosystem Services, 56: 101441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101441 Sarmiento, F.O., Chávez, R., Aguirre, Ch., Abrahms, J. 2022. Desarrollo Sustentable y Regenerativo de los Paisajes Socioecológicos de Montaña: Montología del Chimborazo como Referente Insigne del Cambio Global. Revista Antropologías del Sur 9(17): 121-145. http://revistas.academia.cl/index.php/rantros/article/view/2316 *Sarmiento, F.O, Rodríguez, J., Yépez-Noboa, A. 2022. Forest Transformation in the Wake of Colonization: The Quijos Andean-Amazonian Flank, Past and Present. Forests, 13, 11: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13010011 Delgado, E., Meza Mori, G., Barboza, E., Rojas Briceño, N.B., Torres Guzmán, C., Oliva-Cruz, M., Chavez-Quintana, S.G., Salas López, R., López de la Lama, R., Sevillano-Ríos, C.S., Sarmiento, F.O. 2021. Efectividad de áreas de conservación privada comunal en bosques montanos nublados del norte de Perú. Pirineos, 176, e067. https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2021.176006 Donoso, M. and F.O. Sarmiento. 2021. Changing Mountain Farmscapes: Vulnerability and Adaptation in the Paute’s Watershed, Southern Ecuador. Journal of Mountain Science, 18(7): 1902-1919. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11629-020-6127-y