Projected Climate Impacts on the Amphibians of North and South America
Joshua Lawler
Assistant Professor
UW College of Forest Resources
29 April 2008
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About the speaker
Joshua Lawler received his B.A. from Bowdoin College and M.S. and a Ph.D. in ecology from Utah State University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine from 2000-2001. Dr. Lawler then served as a National Research Council Associate at the US Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. He went on to hold a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Zoology Department at Oregon State University.
Dr. Lawler's interests lie mainly in the fields of conservation biology and landscape ecology. He is interested in how human activities affect ecological systems at large spatial scales. Recent research projects include: projecting climate-induced shifts in species distributions, investigating the effects of climate change on protected lands, modeling population dynamics in changing landscapes, developing tools for conservation planning, and modeling watershed recovery from acidification