MISSOULA, Mont.

Sportsmen across the Southeastern U.S. are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of human-caused climate change on their angling. As the recent National Climate Assessment explained, “the impacts of sea level rise, increasing temperatures, extreme heat events, heavy precipitation, and decreased water availability continue to have numerous consequences for human health, the built environment, and the natural world” across the Southeastern United States.

Conservation Hawks and the Outdoor Writers Association of America invite you to participate in a press call with two fisheries experts, aquatic ecologist Prof. Gary D. Grossman and Dr. Kristin Kleisner, Senior Fisheries Scientist with EDF’s Fisheries Solutions Center. Together, Prof. Grossman and Dr. Kleisner will explain how climate change is impacting fisheries across the Southeastern U.S.
 

Professor Gary D. Grossman has been an aquatic population ecologist and a faculty member at the University of Georgia for the past 38 years. He has conducted fisheries research in the United States, Europe and Asia, and published 130+ papers in the scientific literature. He has also provided expert testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources.

Dr. Kristin Kleisner applies bio-economic models to understand the potential for climate-adaptive management to improve the biomass, harvest, and profits from marine fisheries. She previously worked as a joint research scientist for NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, and for The Nature Conservancy working on ecosystem based fisheries models and exploring the effect of climate change on fish stock distributions in New England. She also led research on the development of fisheries, food security, and ecosystem status indicators with indiSeas (www.indiseas.org), FAO, UNESCO, and the Sea Around Us project. She has published numerous peer-reviewed studies on climate change impacts on fisheries.

Date: Friday, January 18th, 2019 Time: 1:30 pm to 2:15 pm EST

Meeting URL: https://virtualmeeting.8x8.com/join/?id=66719816

Dial In Number: 406-315-5636