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With so many competing pressures for land and resources, conservation is increasingly expected to achieve a wide range of social, economic, and ecological goals and to improve the return on conservation investments. However, directing conservation efforts to the most important places at the most critical times is challenging because it requires extensive and detailed information.
In her talk, Amanda will discuss how birds give us a powerful lens through which we identify and implement strategies to conserve biodiversity and address global challenges facing people and the planet. She illustrates how eBird, a global participatory science project run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, can facilitate the development of flexible, adaptable, creative, and economical approaches to conservation.
Amanda Rodewald is the Garvin Professor and Senior Director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. She also serves as a Faculty Director for the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Prior to joining Cornell in 2013, Amanda spent 13 years as a professor at Ohio State University. Amanda received a B.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from University of Montana, a M.Sc. in Zoology from University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from Pennsylvania State University. She works at the intersection of ecology and conservation, often drawing upon the social sciences, and she uses both field-based studies and participatory science to address conservation challenges in temperate and tropical systems. She has published over 190 scientific papers, an Ornithology textbook, 10 book chapters, and over 70 popular articles. Amanda is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Ornithological Society, from which she received the William Brewster Award in 2022. She also has served four terms on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has testified before Congress, and regularly engages with practitioners and decision-makers to develop smart and innovative approaches to conservation that can accommodate social and ecological needs.
