UC Connect free public lecture: Little genes, big conservation
When nature is in trouble, so are we. Nature can only thrive when biodiversity thrives, and we are facing a biodiversity crisis in in Aotearoa New Zealand. Nearly 4,000 species – many which are found nowhere else in the world – are classified as Threatened or At Risk in this country.
In this upcoming Tauhere | UC Connect public talk, University of Canterbury conservation geneticist Associate Professor Tammy Steeves will discuss how her research team combines genomic and non-genomic data in partnership with tangata whenua, and in collaboration with conservation scientists and practitioners, to co-develop conservation genetic management strategies for some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rarest species. She will focus on the survival of a critically threatened bird, the Tūturuatu/Tchūriwat’/Shore plover.
About the speaker:
Dr Tammy Steeves earned her PhD at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, in 2004 and has been an academic at the University of Canterbury since 2009. She is a co-founder of the Kindness in Science Collective, which is a diverse collective based in Aotearoa New Zealand leading a culture shift in the science community that embeds kindness to achieve better science outcomes.
A conservation geneticist, she routinely partners with the Department of Conservation to co-develop conservation genetic management recommendations. She is a member of, or advisor to, six recovery, specialist or technical advisory groups for critically endangered birds endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand.
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