TK-7:
Diversity in Ecology Luncheon
Carol
Brewer (Organizer for EHRC) Robin Kimmerer, Speaker “Advancing ecology: why culture matters”
Thursday,
August 11, 11
:30 AM -
1:15 PM
, Meeting Room
517d, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
Fee:
$16 US Dollars per person –
Includes seated luncheon featuring salad, vegetarian cannelloni entrée, carrot
cake, and beverages.
Always
a highlight of an
ESA
meeting, this year’s
Diversity in Ecology Luncheon features a program with an important message for
ESA
and INTECOL attendees
alike–along with a tasty and abundant vegetarian meal. Luncheon speaker Robin
Wall Kimmerer serves as Chair of the
ESA
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section and is author of
“Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses”, which was
awarded the 2005 Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. She earned her MS and PhD
in plant ecology from the University of Wisconsin and her BS from the SUNY
College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, where she
is currently a Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology.
Dr. Kimmerer believes ecologists have begun to understand the
contributions of species diversity to ecosystem health and the structure and
function of communities. Managing for increased diversity is a primary value in
ecosystem conservation and restoration. Dr. Kimmerer’s talk will address the
following questions: (1) Are there parallels with how we understand the benefits
of cultural diversity in the ecological workforce? (2) Does cultural diversity
in the scientific community influence the science and practice of ecology? (3)
What are the factors that nurture or constrain diversity? and (4) How can
ecology be advanced by incorporation of “other ways of knowing” in
education, research and conservation?
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