Congratulations to Dr. Schap!
Congratulations to freshly minted, Dr. Julia Schap, who successfully defended her dissertation on Monday!...
How have African trait-environment relationships changed over time?
Check out this article about our latest grant! We will study fossils in Africa to forecast how humans and climate affect wildlife. The study will build an understanding of the continent’s animals, physical traits developed, and their relationships/responses to environmental changes: http://b.gatech.edu/3I5iGYq This grant will fund grad student Danny Lauer’s dissertation research. Also, grad...
What does a changing climate mean for GA’s ecosystems?
Jenny participated one of the Georgia Climate Project’s monthly webinars, entitled “What does changing climate mean for Georgia’s ecosystem.” She spoke about the implications of changing climates for the ranges and compositions of species and ecosystems as well as the implications and challenges for conservation in Georgia. Watch it here!...
Ecosystems and Climate Panel
Jenny mediated a discussion about ecosystems and climate for the Global Climate Action Symposium. The panel included global experts: * Jennifer Marlon, Yale University * Shyla Raghav, Conservation International * Joel Kostka, Georgia Institute of Technology * Jérôme Gaillardet, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Watch it here!...
African Herbivore Biodiversity Change Over Time
Danny gave a lightning talk at the GT’s Global Change Action Symposium. Watch it here!...
Climate Change Fellows Seed Grant
I’m pleased to announce that Allen Hyde and I have received a seed grant through Georgia Tech’s Climate Change Fellows program to allow us to work with students from the Climate Resilience class to write up our work on “An integrated analysis of climate resilience in social-ecological systems in the southeastern United States”. We...
Climate Resilience Seminar
This semester, Jenny will be teaching a graduate seminar about climate resilience. In it, we will explore how different fields define resilience to climate change and discover ways to define and identify resilient systems....
Dr. Julie Meachen visits SEPL
Julie Meachen, Assistant Professor at DMU, visited SEPL over the last week to continue work on the Natural Trap Cave project. Julie, along with Dr. Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide, is the principal investigator on the grant that opened up Natural Trap Cave for research over the last 5 years. The original...
National Forum on Landscape Conservation
Last week (Nov. 7-8), Jenny participated in the National Forum on Landscape Conservation. This was a discussion amongst government, nonprofit and academic leaders in landscape ecology & conservation about how the field should progress. Jenny worked with other participants to draft short- and long-term goals for progressive integration of landscape perspectives into planning. The...
The Wildlife Society
Jenny presented research on climate connectivity at the Wildlife Society conference in Albuquerque, NM. Her presentation was part of a symposium entitled “Conserving Nature’s Stages and Helping Wildlife Move Between Them” organized by Mark Anderson (The Nature Conservancy) & Paul Beier (Northern Arizona University)....