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ADV - Lunch with a Scientist: Addressing global biodiversity decline with remote sensing and local knowledge
2660 Fawn Lake Dr NEEast Bethel, MN 55005
Join life-long learners VIRTUALLY for a monthly lunch and learn series at Cedar Creek. Bring your lunch and hunger for knowledge, we will provide the brain food! Planet Earth is experiencing rapid losses in biodiversity across the tree of life from plants, to insects to birds, reptiles and mammals. Prioritizing efforts to stem these losses is aided by knowing where change is happening most rapidly. Global monitoring is becoming increasingly feasible through satellite and remote sensing technology, but the signals from space are only as useful as our ability to interpret them. What role do field biologists, citizen scientists and biological research stations play? Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares will argue that integrating sensor technology with knowledge of organisms and ecological processes from all kinds of scientists—from amateurs to professionals and from urban centers to wildlands—is critical to understanding biodiversity change. The knowledge we generate is, in turn, essential for the prioritizing management efforts towards global sustainability.
THIS PROGRAM WILL BE ONLINE. To sign up for the online webinar go to: http://z.umn.edu/LWASonline
THIS WILL BE AN ONLINE-ONLY LECTURE WITH NO IN-PERSON PROGRAMMING.
Course Dates:
Meeting from 11:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. on:
- Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Instructor Information
Dr. Barale Potter is the Associate Director at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, where she also manages education and community engagement programs. Her background is in wildlife ecology, and she holds a B.S. in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology as well as a masters and Ph.D in ecology and evolutionary biology. She studied wildlife and animal behavior all over the world (mostly monkeys in Ethiopia) before finding her true passion doing environmental education! Currently, she manages the daily operations of the Cedar Creek field station as well as leading K-12 field trip groups, public science projects, research tours and volunteer opportunities.
Sponsor Information
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
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