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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Why Conservation Science Matters: Intelligent Tinkering in the Age of the Anthropocene Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Conservation science detects critical trends, identifies their drivers and impacts, and implements solutions; it is the discipline by which we come to know the world’s cogs and wheels and in turn work to retain enough of them to support functioning ecosystems on earth.Nava Tabak is Director of Science, Climate, & Stewardship at Scenic Hudson, a non-profit environmental advocacy organization and land trust. Her work focuses on biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration and stewardship, and promoting climate resilience in the Hudson Valley.She provides science-based guidance for the stewardship of Scenic Hudson’s parks and preserves, land use advocacy, policy, and land protection prioritization initiatives. Nava recently conducted the first comprehensive effort to model the projected response of the Hudson’s tidal wetlands to climate change-driven sea level rise, and developed a framework of conservation, restoration, and policy strategies to maximize their resilience in the coming century. Working with regional partners Nava assists Hudson River waterfront communities in adapting to accelerating sea level rise and its associated flooding. Previous work experience includes habitat mapping for conservation planning, environmental education, wildlife and aquatic resource conservation, and invasive species detection and management. She received her MS from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department of the University of Connecticut, where she studied invasive plant ecology, conducted spatial distribution modeling, and staffed the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England project. Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Hall Sponsor: Citizen Science Program; Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/physics/events/