[MPWG] November 9th PCA Meeting

Lindsey Riibe riibe.lindsey at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 11:35:50 CST 2016


The Plant Conservation Alliance Meeting is tomorrow! Wed, November 9th from
2:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time.

There will be a presentation by Dr. Healy Hamilton, Chief Scientist and
Vice President for Conservation Science at NatureServe (read more about
Healy and her work in the previous email) followed by a roundtable for
attendees to share relevant events, and updates from the PCA working groups
and committees.

Please find attached the AGENDA for this meeting.

To join the meeting as a WEBINAR use the following link and enter the
following information into the required fields. 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.

http://www.mymeetings.com/nc/join.php?sigKey=blm&i=742990168&p=meeting&t=c
Meeting Number:  742990168 Passcode: meeting

For audio, call 1-877-414-1336 Passcode: 6177335#


On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Lindsey Riibe <riibe.lindsey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>
>


-- 
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>
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