Place-based Climate Change Adaptation: Overcoming the Paralysis of Uncertainty
Instructor Bibliography: Molly S. Cross, Ph.D., Climate Change Ecologist, North America Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bozeman, MT
Dr. Molly Cross is an ecologist whose research focuses on ecosystem
responses to climate change and biodiversity loss. In 2007, Molly joined
the Wildlife Conservation Society's North America Program to examine the
impacts of climate change on wildlife conservation efforts. The primary goal
of the project is to bring together experts in the fields of climate change,
ecology, conservation planning and land management to translate broad-brush
climate change adaptation strategies into on-the-ground conservation actions
at various landscapes in the Intermountain West of North America. Molly
conducted her Ph.D. research at the University of California-Berkeley on
ecosystem responses to climate warming-induced plant species loss in a
sub-alpine meadow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
