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[PAST EVENT] Seminar: Dr. Emily Darling
February 20, 2015
3pm - 4:30pm
Location
VIMS - Watermen's Hall, McHugh Auditorium1375 Greate Road
Gloucester Point, VA 23062Map this location
Join Dr. Emily Darling, David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, as she presents "Coral reefs in a stressed world: synergies, resilience, and refugia". Sponsored by the VIMS Post-doctoral Program.
Watermen's Hall
Reception at 3:00 (Lobby)
Seminar from 3:30 to 4:30 (McHugh Auditorium)
Background:
Dr. Darling completed a PhD with Isabelle Cote at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She is a community and conservation ecologist motivated to understand and mitigate the impacts of humans on coastal and marine ecosystems. Dr Darling is also an affiliate researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society leading a global coral reef fisheries monitoring program, and she is working towards a climate adaptation plan for coral reefs in the US Pacific.
Abstract:
Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by local and global stressors and there is mounting evidence that reefs are shifting into new species and communities. A critical question is what will coral reefs look like in the future, and what ecosystem goods and services will altered reefs continue to provide? In this talk, Dr. Darling will outline a new, trait-based approach to classify life-history strategies for global scleractinian corals that can be used to assess 20 years of community change in reef-building corals following the impacts of fishing and climate-induced coral bleaching. She will discuss the implications of altered communities for managing coral reef resilience in a changing climate and consider how identifying climate 'refugia' with global networks of scientists can prioritize coral reefs for targeted conservation action in the face of global climate change.
Watermen's Hall
Reception at 3:00 (Lobby)
Seminar from 3:30 to 4:30 (McHugh Auditorium)
Background:
Dr. Darling completed a PhD with Isabelle Cote at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She is a community and conservation ecologist motivated to understand and mitigate the impacts of humans on coastal and marine ecosystems. Dr Darling is also an affiliate researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society leading a global coral reef fisheries monitoring program, and she is working towards a climate adaptation plan for coral reefs in the US Pacific.
Abstract:
Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by local and global stressors and there is mounting evidence that reefs are shifting into new species and communities. A critical question is what will coral reefs look like in the future, and what ecosystem goods and services will altered reefs continue to provide? In this talk, Dr. Darling will outline a new, trait-based approach to classify life-history strategies for global scleractinian corals that can be used to assess 20 years of community change in reef-building corals following the impacts of fishing and climate-induced coral bleaching. She will discuss the implications of altered communities for managing coral reef resilience in a changing climate and consider how identifying climate 'refugia' with global networks of scientists can prioritize coral reefs for targeted conservation action in the face of global climate change.
Contact
[[v|seitz, Rochelle Seitz]]