AWARDS BREAKFAST SPEAKER:
Healy Hamilton
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 About
Healy Hamilton
Director, Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics,
California Academy of Sciences
Dr. HEALY HAMILTON is a biodiversity scientist at the California
Academy of Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the Department
of Geography at San Francisco State University. She directs
the Academy’s Center for Applied Biodiversity Informatics
(CABI), a program that integrates biological and geospatial
data for biodiversity research, conservation, and education.
CABI’s focus is on the developing field of Conservation Biogeography,
which investigates geographic patterns of biodiversity in
the past, present, and future for science-based conservation
planning. Current research projects include developing methods
for forecasting species range shifts induced by climate change
to support the design and implementation of large landscape
wildland networks, which represent a central strategy for
biodiversity adaptation to climate change. Another set of
projects in the Hamilton lab apply comparative DNA sequence
analysis to questions about the taxonomy, evolution and conservation
of groups of aquatic organisms, including river dolphins,
seahorses, pipefish, and octopuses.
Dr. Hamilton received her masters degree from Yale University
and her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of
California, Berkeley. For both degrees she conducted extensive
field research in Latin America, and she continues expedition
research today across a range of marine environments. Dr.
Hamilton is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and a Switzer Foundation
Environmental Leadership Grantee.
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