[MPWG] November 9th PCA Meeting

Lindsey Riibe riibe.lindsey at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 19:11:52 CDT 2016


The next Plant Conservation Alliance Meeting is *Wednesday, November 9th *from
2:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time.

We are excited to have *Dr. Healy Hamilton, *Chief Scientist and Vice
President for Conservation Science at NatureServe, presenting her work on
"climate change vulnerability assessment of major western U.S. vegetation
types".

The Plant Conservation Alliance Bi-Monthly Meeting is an open forum for
anyone interested or working in plant conservation. The meeting is held in
the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Regular attendees include
representatives from
the PCA Federal agencies and from Cooperating organizations; however anyone
is welcome to attend this meeting.

*Please RSVP to lriibe at blm.gov <lriibe at blm.gov> by Monday, November 7th if
you would like to attend the meeting in person.*

*To join the meeting via WEBINAR:*
Go to
http://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join.php?sigKey=blm&i=742990168&p=meeting&t=c
Meeting number: 742990168
Passcode: meeting
Meeting Host: Peggy Olwell

** Be sure to enter the meeting number and passcode for this conference.
There may be previously stored information in your computer that
automatically populates the fields and can direct you to an alternate
meeting.*

*More about next week's presenter:*
Dr. Healy Hamilton is currently Chief Scientist and Vice President for
Conservation Science at NatureServe. She is a biodiversity scientist with
broad interests in the evolution and conservation of the diversity of
life.  Her current research focus is global change biology, with an
emphasis on forecasting the impacts of climate change on species and
ecosystems for natural resource management and conservation. She obtained
her masters degree at Yale University and her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Dr.
Hamilton is President of the Society for Conservation GIS and serves on the
Science Committee of the National Park Service Advisory Board, and is a
former U.S. Fulbright Scholar.

Check out her recent work on shifting of the redwood forest bioclimate:

Science Daily news article: "Future coastal climate not cool for redwood
forests" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151016115449.htm

Abstract for "Back to the future: using historical climate variation to
project near-term shifts in habitat suitable for coast redwood" in the
journal Global Change Biology:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13027/abstract



-- 
Lindsey Riibe
Bureau of Land Management Plant Conservation Program
Plant Conservation Alliance
<http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/fish__wildlife_and/plants/pca.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plantconservation.org/pipermail/mpwg_lists.plantconservation.org/attachments/20161101/6532dc27/attachment.html>


More information about the MPWG mailing list