Presentations
Featured Presentations
Testifying to Congress on the biodiversity crisis
In May 2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its of the forthcoming Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service. I testified to the House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife about the report and tied it explicitly to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, our nation’s best line of defense against extinction and the threats identified in the IPBES report.
Remote Defending: Community science
The COVID-19 pandemic has been incredibly challenging and tragic for the world. But for many people, the restrictions on being indoors has meant renewed interest in being out in the natural world. As part of Defenders' Remote Defending series, I talk about participating in community science through the annual City Nature Challenge. And I got to highlight Lark as a young naturalist!
Testifying to Congress on the need for increased conservation funding
The damage we have done and are doing to nature is almost unimaginable and the consequences are as dire for humanity as they are for wildlife. This and more is included in my testimony to House Committee on Appropriations on February 25th, 2020, starting at the 26 minute mark in this recording, and the full written testimony can be found here.
All Presentations
2023 Climate Adaptation Policy at Interior (American Geophysical Union)
2023 Evidence for decision-making (invited keynote for the FWS Data Management Community)
2023 Evidence and statistics (invited panel for the USGS Community for Data Integration)
2022 Status and trends of biodiversity (invited talk to the National Council of Environmental Legislators)
2022 Natural Capital Accounting for the U.S. (invited panel at the Joint Statistical Meeting)
2022 Intro to the Office of Policy Analysis (invited talk to the DOI Restoration Group)
2021 The need for a National Biodiversity Strategy (invited talk with NCEL)
2021 Combating Species Extinction Through a National Biodiversity Strategy (invited Capitol Hill brief)
2021 Innovating for Conservation (invited org. talk)
2021 Supporting Habitat Conservation with Automated Change Detection in Google Earth Engine (with M.
Evans, invited talk)
2020 Innovating for conservation (invited presentation to funders)
2020 From pixels to objects: detecting habitat change with AI (invited presentation, with M. Evans)
2020 Conservation policy crash-course for scientists (NACCB workshop with M. Evans and A. Carter)
2020 Getting to 30x30: Guidelines for decision-makers. (org. talk)
2020 Funding needs for the Fish and Wildlife Service (testimony to U.S. House of Representatives,
Appropriations Committee, Interior and Related Agencies subcommittee)
2019 Technical improvements for pesticide consultations, Entomological Society of America 2020 (invited
talk)
2019 Tracking demographic and threats status of ESA-listed species, Ecological Society of America (talk)
2019 Partnership for Action on Conservation Technology (convened workshop)
2019 Refined range mapping for ESA consultations, Society for Conservation GIS annual meeting (talk)
2019 Refined range mapping for ESA consultations (convened workshops)
2019 Refined range mapping for ESA consultations, Crop Life America (invited talk)
2019 Status of biodiversity and ecosystem services (testimony to U.S. House of Representatives, Natural
Resources Committee, WOW subcommittee)
2019 Integrating science, technology, and policy for conservation, College of William and Mary (invited talk)
2018 Defense and Defenders, DOD Readiness Conference, St. Louis (invited talk)
2018 Improving the quantitative analysis of data related to recovery programs, North American Congress
for Conservation Biology, Toronto, Ontario (invited talk)
2018 Science and tech for better conservation outcomes, University of Maryland College Park Human-
Computer Interaction Lab (invited talk)
2016 Science and technology at the interface of imperiled species policy, University of Virginia Department
of Environmental Sciences (invited talk)
2016 Communicating complex conservation science effectively to policy- and decision-makers to effect
change, NA Congress for Conservation Biology, Madison, WI (convened workshop)
2016 Science and technology at the interface of imperiled species policy, University of Virginia Blandy
Experimental Farm (invited talk)
2016 The Endangered Species Act in the Southeast (talk), Assoc. Southeast Biol., Concord, NC
2015 Promoting synergy in the innovative use of environmental data (USGS and NatureServe), Washington,
DC (invited talk)
2014 International Xenopus Conference, Ansilomar, CA (poster)
2014 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, San Juan, Puerto Rico (poster)
2014 University of Connecticut, Section of Genetics and Genomics Seminar (talk)
2013 University of Connecticut, Section of Genetics and Genomics Seminar (invited talk)
2013 Dissertation Defense, University of Texas at Austin (talk)
2012 University of Texas at Austin, Plant Biology Seminar (invited talk)
2012 University of Texas at Austin, EEB Ecology Seminar (talk)
2011 Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (talk)
2011 University of Texas at Austin EEB Ecology Seminar (talk)
2010 Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium, UT-Austin (talk)
2010 University of Texas at Austin EEB Ecology Seminar (talk)
2009 Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO (poster)
2009 University of Texas at Austin EEB Ecology Seminar (talk)
2008 Ecological Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO (talk)
2005 Borderlands Conservation Taskforce Conference, Tucson, AZ (panel)
2004 Management and Conservation of the Madrean Archipelago, Tucson, AZ (talk)
2003 Aquatic Resources in Arid Lands Conference, Las Cruces, NM (panel)
2002 Current Herpetofaunal Research of the Sonoran Desert II, Phoenix, AZ (talk)