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Thursday, February 25, 7 pm Click to Register

How will a shifting climate affect native plants, and how can we plan for the coming changes? Dr. Tom Kaye, Executive Director of the Institute for Applied Ecology, will discuss the ways in which climate change in Oregon may affect our state’s vegetation, including endangered species, and ways in which we can help our flora and habitats be more resilient to these changes.

This webinar, presented by IAE Executive Director Dr. Tom Kaye, is part of our Stories from the Field Webinar Series.  You must register first to view this free webinar. It will be recorded if you cannot attend. Register by via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpduGuqzgvGdJn5dpTeEb3qgmTbItdESlm

Questions? Email michelw@appliedeco.org

The year 2020 was exceptional for many reasons, and hindsight will clarify this in the coming years. For some, 2020 will be remembered as the year of wildfire, and hopefully the year we embraced a different relationship with fire. Join us for a presentation describing the historical context of the human-fire relationship and a vision for adapting ourselves to a future with more fire. A vision grounded in analytics, and integrated with expert judgement, as we look for ways to learn to live with wildfire.

This webinar, presented by Dr. Chris Dunn of Oregon State University, is part of our Stories from the Field Webinar Series.  You must register first to view this free webinar. It will be recorded if you cannot attend. Register by via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkc-uoqj8uEtJky4QQbD0TihzNhQ5X3rgY

Questions? Email michelw@appliedeco.org

April 29, 7 pm  – Click to REGISTER*
Webinar Title: Ecosystem Disturbances: Some Uncommon Views
Dr. Fred Swanson, retired Research Geologist with the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the US Forest Service

Description: Disturbance events are frequent and essential components of forests and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Reflections on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, the Forest Wars over old-growth, the 1996 flood, and the 2020 wildfires reveal common properties of these “big-change events.” They each created big change in our thinking and humans just don’t deal with change well; disturbance science helps place abrupt, unexpected events in historical context; interesting discoveries (“aha moments”) can occur in the midst of the events themselves; and the resulting landscapes may be disheartening, fascinating, and even beautiful.

This webinar, presented by Dr. Fred Swanson, is part of our Stories from the Field Webinar Series. You must register first to view this free webinar. It will be recorded if you cannot attend. Register by via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sc-murz4pHtSdk5Jh2ey2zwDw6d7xaAur

May 27, 7 pm – Click to REGISTER*
Webinar Title: Pollination of Willamette Daisy
David Cappaert, Institute for Applied Ecology

Description: Windows on biodiversity: an entomological tour. The presentation will explore the lives of the utterly common, and strikingly beautiful insects that inhabit backyards and vacant spaces.

This webinar, presented by David Cappaert of the IAE Pollinator Project, is part of our Stories from the Field Webinar Series. You must register first to view this free webinar. It will be recorded if you cannot attend. Register by via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlf-GrqTgsGdYU4c6kvHxkq83Ai3eqi1xP

June 24, 7 pm – Click to REGISTER*
Webinar Title: Plants, Pollinators, Native Prairies, and Conservation
Dr. Susan Waters, Quamash EcoResearch

Description: Restoration of Willamette Valley/Puget Trough prairies has been highly successful in reestablishing native plant communities that look beautiful and diverse to a human eye. Yet we still have relatively little understanding of how the non-plant members of the community respond to restoration. This is an important gap in conservation science, since these prairies host a number of rare species, including insect species that depend directly on specialized relationships with key plants. Our program uses plant-pollinator networks to examine the effects of restoration on pollinating insect communities and the interactions that feed back to affect rare plant and insect species. We will present results of a study of pollination interactions that affect Willamette daisy (Erigeron decumbens), a rare native forb of the Willamette Valley prairies, as well as insights into how restoration reorganizes plant-pollinator communities.

This webinar, presented by Dr. Susan Waters of Quamash EcoResearch, is part of our Stories from the Field Webinar Series. You must register first to view this free webinar. It will be recorded if you cannot attend. Register by via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqceGqqz4sHdzp59R57loRHLiNUNvgmnlA