Telephone: +47 467 49 352
E-mail: rose.keller@nina.no
Area:
Nature, Land and Society
Office:
OSLO
Knowledge areas
human geography
socio-ecological systems
conservation social science
survey methodology
Key qualifications
Nature based tourism
Nature Governance
Education
University of Bremen, PhD Geography
University of Eastern Finland, MS Geography
University of Idaho, BS International Development. Minors: Economics, Russian, Environmental Philosophy
Experience
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Lillehammer, Norway), Environmental Social Science Researcher: April 2020 - Present
Alaska Pacific University Dept of Environmental Sciences (Alaska USA), Affiliated Faculty: March 2020 - Present
National Park Service, Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska, USA), Social Scientist: March 2016 - February 2020
Portland State University Dept of Geography (Oregon, USA), Affiliated Faculty: May 2015 - March 2016
Languages
English (native)
Norwegian (c1)
German (b1)
Russian (b2)
Spanish (a2)
Conference contributions
Keynote speaker, Socio-ecological consequences of Arctic Tourism. Nordic Tourism and Business Studies Conference, University of Eastern Finland (2025)
Keynote speaker, Drawn by the midnight sun and heeding nature’s call: a biopolitical approach to understanding waste behavior. Critical Tourism Studies North American Conference, University of Quèbec Montreal, Canada (2023)
Invited workshop leader, “Applying ethnographic methods to walking transects in ecology” One by Walking Network meeting, Dalà, Iceland (2023).
Invited speaker, Tourism and Landscape Interactions, University of Groningen, Leweeden NL (2023)
Invited speaker, Awkward Moments in Conservation, Mid Sweden University, Östersund (2023)
Invited panelist, People and Public Lands Forum. Headwaters Economics, Bozeman, Montana (2019)
Invited speaker, Can tourism to national parks be sustainable? Norwegian National Park Manager conferences (2022 & 2023),
Intersections of sustainability and tourism in Lofoten, Seminar, Framsenter Tromsø, Norway (2023), Different mandates, same issues, Seminar, Denali, AK (2023),
The Science of Parks and People: what happens when the project is over in Denali Natural Resources Environmental Sciences Seminar Series, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2019)
Honours
Leadership award in outstanding science in AK Parks, NPS/USA
Women in STEM Award, Recognition of Women in Applied STEM fields, Verizon /USA
Superior Performance Award, National Park Service, NPS/USA
Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning Academy Fellow, Portland State University
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences Best Paper Award for Original Research, Universität Bremen
Masters Mobility Grant, Univ. of Eastern Finland /Finland
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society /USA
Professional societies
American Association of Geographers
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
European Association for Landscape Ecology
Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
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