Pacific RISCC Webinar: Invasive Species Threaten the Success of Climate Change Adaptation Efforts
Pacific RISCC July Webinar
“Invasive Species Threaten the Success of Climate Change Adaptation Efforts” with Laura Brewington, Co-Director of the NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the US Pacific Islands region, Pacific RISA, and Leigh Greenwood, Forest Pest and Pathogen Program Director for the Natural Climate Solutions Program within The Nature Conservancy’s North America Region
Summary: This webinar discusses a new white paper for the federal government that offers a blueprint for transforming how invasive species are considered within US climate change planning, processes.
Speaker bios:
As Co-Director of the NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the US Pacific Islands region, Pacific RISA, Laura Brewington works in thematic areas of climate adaptation science, invasive species, natural climate solutions, coastal resilience, and climate early warning systems. Her responsibilities include advancing transformative adaptation and resilience-building initiatives by working with governments, institutions, decision makers, natural resource managers, and communities across the Pacific Islands. She has a joint appointment as a Research Professor at Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab and a Research Fellow at the East-West Center, and is based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Leigh Greenwood is the Forest Pest and Pathogen Program Director for the Natural Climate Solutions Program within The Nature Conservancy’s North America Region. Leigh’s work focuses on bringing multiple stakeholders together to achieve common goals in Forest Health, including: managing the Don’t Move Firewood campaign, convening the Continental Dialogue on Non-native Forest Insects and Diseases, working to improve the international biosecurity measures in place for solid wood packaging, and leading the Tree Improvement Project. Leigh earned her B.A. in Biology at Williams College and her M.S. in Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she studied the intersection of native wildlife and invasive plants… in a lab about two doors down from where Elliott was earning his PhD.