A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley for being the first SEPL student to successfully defend their dissertation! Newly minted Dr. Shipley also just earned an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and he will be joining Erin Saupe at Oxford to study range sizes through time. We’re going to miss Ben here at SEPL, but we wish...
Jenny contributed to a really interesting paper in One Earth, led by the Nature Conservancy, entitled “Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation”. Check it out here. This publication is linked with a set of maps, which can be found here. The citation...
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!...
Georgia Public Broadcasting did an exclusive preview of a new documentary series, “The Age of Nature,” that explores humanity’s relationship with nature and wildlife as scientists from all over the world examine ways we can restore our planet. Guests were treated to excerpts from each of the three episodes, followed by an in-depth conversation...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley, who was recently awarded an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He proposes to explore the drivers of endemism hotspots. This funding will allow Ben flexibility in pursuing his PhD research going forward....
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...
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....
iCCB (Integrative Climate Change Biology) is an incredibly successful program, funded primarily by the IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), to develop trait-based approaches that can make deep-time perspectives from paleontology applicable for understanding organisms’ responses to climate change. During its last round of funding, the IUBS tasked the iCCB with making inroads with...
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...
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)....
