Dr. Bridie McGreavy is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine. She studies communication within sustainability science teams and coastal and freshwater management contexts. She is a lead investigator on the New England Sustainability Consortium’s Future of Dams Project, a large interdisciplinary network that seeks to link science with decision making about systems of dams. Her lecture, entitled "How do we communicate for social-ecological resilience? Communication research to connect…

Adapative Peaks Seminar Series The Department of Environmental and Forest Biology is pleased to host Dr. John Battles as part of the Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series. His talk is entitled "The causes and consequences of catastrophic tree mortality: Ecological insights from the epic California drought." John J. Battles, Professor of Forest Ecology at UC Berkeley, is a field scientist engaged in long-term research of temperate forest ecosystems. His goal is to understand how and why forests change. His research seeks…

Adapative Peaks Seminar Series Title: Conservation and research of North American cranes: endangered to hunted species Aaron Pearse is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, North Dakota. Since 2007, he has worked primarily with migratory birds and has addressed needs of natural resource managers by providing answers that lead to science-based management of wildlife species and ecosystems in which they depend. Aaron received graduate degrees at Mississippi…