Join Dr. Tanisha M. Williams, founder of #BlackBotanistsWeek, who will share her research on the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, talk about her journey into a career in science, and discuss the work she is doing to create space for diversity in scientific fields.
Scientists are urgently working to understand historical and contemporary responses to increasingly stressful environments. They seek to conserve species and their habitats and make meaningful projections for the future. There is exciting research being done to help document, monitor, and conserve species. The use of herbarium records, genomics methods, and trait-based ecology are all being used to understand the mechanisms that influence species distributions and their responses to climate change.
This talk will take you on a world tour from South Africa to the United States. Along the way, participants will hear stories about how species have responded to climate change and how genomics methods are being used to conserve rare species. This program will even highlight the discovery of a new species.
This program meets in person at The Morton Arboretum and will also be broadcast live online via Zoom.
To attend in person, register for Section A. To attend online, register for Section B.
Speaker: Dr. Tanisha Williams, the Richard E. and Yvonne Smith Postdoctoral Fellow in Botany at Bucknell University and founder of Black Botanists Week.
Age: 16 and older
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This program is part of the Women and the Environment Series. Register for the other sessions:
Friday, March 10: Gidinawendimin: We Are All Connected with Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Friday, March 24: The Legacy of May Watts with Cindy Crosby and Rita Hassert
Friday, March 31: Soil Sisters: How Local Women Are Caring for the Land with Heather Lynch
Thursday, April 6: Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies with Leah Penniman
