Biological Challenges of Global Change

9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Margaret Brent Room

Dr. David Inouye, Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland, Title: "The Effects Of Climate Change On Plants And Their Pollinators"

Dr. Camille Parmesan, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Title: "Impacts of Recent Climate Change on Wild Life: What Do Current Responses Tell Us about the Future?"

Dr. Chris Pyke, US EPA's Global Change Research Program, Research Fellow, Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Center for Coastal Resources Management, Title: "Biological conservation in a changing climate: challenges and opportunities across scales."

Organized and moderated by Dr. William Fagan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland

DAVID INOUYE, PH.D. Professor, Department of Biology; Director, graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology, University of Maryland. Dr. Inouye teaches classes in ecology and conservation biology, and advises several Ph.D. graduate students and the 40 students in the conservation biology program. This year he was recognized by the campus Distinguished International Service Award. David is Secretary of the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America, on the Steering Committee of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, and a member of the National Research Committee's panel studying the status of pollinators in North America. He does research each summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (in Colorado) where the National Science Foundation funds his long-term work on the phenology, pollination, and demography of wildflowers. The data he has collected there since 1973 are providing insight into the effects of global and regional climate change.

CAMILLE PARMESAN, PH.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas.   Dr. Parmesan specializes in population ecology and conservation biology.   Her graduate and postdoctoral research on the impacts of climate change on butterflies provided concrete evidence that species' spatial distributions will shift over broad scales in response to global change.   Since then she has played key roles in synthesizing and writing for the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and worked to compile the global evidence for impacts of climate change at the species and community levels. She routinely publishes in the most prestigious scientific journals such as Science and Nature . In addition, her work reaches a wide audience through contributions to popular outlets such as National Geographic , the BBC film series The State of the Planet , and major network news programs. Dr. Parmesan received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas and held a postdoctoral position at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.

CHRIS PYKE, PH.D.   US EPA's Global Change Research Program; Research Fellow, Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Center for Coastal Resources Management.   Dr. Pyke investigates the environmental impacts of climate and land use change, as well potential adaptation strategies associated with land management, land protection, and the built environment.   Prior to joining the EPA, he was a fellow with The Nature Conservancy's David H. Smith research program while in residence at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and Conservation International.   Dr. Pyke is currently a member of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee and the National Ecological Observatory Network's Science and Human Dimensions Committee.   His recent work includes publications in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Ecosystems, Ecological Modelling, and Climatic Change.   Dr. Pyke received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his B.S. in Environmental Geology from the College of William and Mary.

 

 

 

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