Please join the Barry University Honors Program for their Fall 2018 Guest Lecture Series titled: Wildlife Responses to Climate Change in the High Tropical Andes
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018
Time: 12 – 1 p.m.
Location: Landon Events Room (Landon 110)
Dr. Kelsey Reider received Bachelor of Science degrees in Zoology and Marine Ecology from Ohio State University in 2007 and Master of Science and doctoral degrees in Biology from Florida International University in 2011 and 2018, respectively. Having spent much of the last five years among melting glaciers at the top of the Andes, Dr. Reider has a compelling story to tell about documenting ecological responses to climate change in one of the most rapidly warming places on Earth. Dr. Reider’s talk will highlight impacts of climate change in a region with the greatest concentrations of biological diversity on Earth. Based on her research conducted in the Cordillera Vilcanota in southeastern Peru, Dr. Reider will focus on examples from the upper limits of the biosphere illustrating how climate change can directly facilitate the upward range expansion of species and the spread of a deadly wildlife disease (i.e., the amphibian chytrid fungus). She will also discuss the role of climate change in increasing human-human and human-wildlife conflicts and opportunities for conservation in high mountain systems.
Join the Honors Program’s Fall Guest Lecture Series in response to the United Nations’ call for immediate action to address climate change through education.
Guest Panelist for this lecture is:
Dr. Kelsey Reider, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University.
Moderators:
Nicole Rafols and Arin Blake
HPSAB Members
Food will be provided. RSVP is requested by November 12 to psirimangkala@barry.edu.