NACCB 2020 Resources: Interactive Session Reports

Whether you were unable to attend NACCB 2020, wish to learn more about the fantastic interactive sessions, want to engage further with session organizers and attendees, or all of the above, this is your one-stop shop! Explore below the outcomes and upcoming opportunities generated from the interactive sessions hosted at this year’s congress.

Accelerating Connectivity Conservation During Rapid Global Change: Science into Action

Zachary Wurtzebach, Jodi Hilty, John Gallo, Wayne Spencer, Annika Keeley, Gary Tabor, Gabriel Oppler

Live Storytelling: An Old Tool for New Conservation

Melissa Cronin

Contact Melissa Cronin for slides from the session: mecronin@ucsc.edu

Plugging in to the environment: new technologies to address hard questions

Brett Dickson, Kimberly Hall, Vincent Landau, Tony Chang, Ranjan Anantharaman

Exploring the continuum of public engagement in conservation science: Responsibility, relationships & ‘life’ beyond the manuscript

Ada Smith, Elizabeth Metcalf

Expanding Boundaries Through Allyship in Conservation Biology

Brendan Reid, Gerald Singh

Developing best practices for conducting conservation science and citizen science on private lands

Ashley Dayer, Amy Johnson

Claiming Space for Womxn and Other Non-Dominant Identities in Conservation Science

Meredith McClure, Meghan Halabisky, Amanda Kissel, Maureen Ryan

Developing a National Pollinator Conservation Policy for Canada

Sheila Colla, Briann Dorin, Nilanjana Ganguli

Hone your pitch! Working with the media to communicate your science

Catherine Schmitt

Presentation slides (PDF)

NACCB Pitch session and discussion recording (YouTube)

Inclusion in Conservation: Perspectives and Experiences, A Candid Discussion

Angelina González-Aller, Sergio Avila, Bray Beltrán, Randi Shaw, Tiara Moore

Building Bridges between Conservation Biology and Energy Technology – Opportunities for Bidirectional Information Exchange and Direct Collaboration

Steven C. DeCaluwe

This interactive session was a revelatory “meeting of the minds” from researchers in a wide variety of fields related to the intersection between conservation biology and energy technology, many of whom thought they were alone in their wish to connect and synthesize across disciplinary lines. Through this interactive session, we were able to connect, identify salient topics for initial collaboration, brainstorm some near-term initial publications, and plan next steps for forming a persistent online community (via Slack) to continue and grow this exciting collaborative space.

Confronting eco-grief and eco-anxiety in the conservation classroom

Jessica Pratt, Karissa Gallego Lovero

Additional session resources are available at this link.