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<div style="font-style:normal"><font face="Cambria, serif" size="4"><b>Zoe Nyssa </b></font></div>
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species going extinct one thousand times the natural rate, the study of global biodiversity for conservation scientists has become a professional, moral, and practical imperative. Yet as a new biological and political category of risky existence, species endangerment
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partners and communities. Rather, these paradoxical effects exhibit a consistent pattern related to how the science of conservation parses up and engages with the world. This paper provides a typology of the unintended consequences of conservation, the ways
that scientists, their allies, and other stakeholders are surprised by the effects of biodiversity science. I argue that this element of surprise is an epistemic artifact of the limits of our ecological thinking. Further, conservation as a case study affords
insight into wider processes of scientific serendipity and rupture in the Anthropocene. </font></div>
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Nyssa earned her Hon. B.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Toronto, an M.A. at the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation research examined the
rapid growth of conservation science from the 1980s to the present through quantitative and qualitative analyses of environmental research, collaboration, and academic curricula. Her work has been supported by several fellowships and grants, including an Andrew
W. Mellon dissertation year fellowship in 2013-2014 from the University of Chicago, a Predoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and a Student Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Consortium on Law and Values
in Health, Environment and the Life Sciences.</span></font></div>
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