Presented by: Dr. Robert Fisher and Erin Lundy
The Aquarium of the Pacific promises a leaping experience for it’s First Wednesday lecture scheduled for June 5 at the Pacific Visions Center at the facility.
Join guest speakers and conservation biology experts Dr. Robert Fisher, US Geological Survey and Erin Lundy, Aquarium of the Pacific for a hopping talk on local frogs. Discover how habitat loss, climate change, disease, and wildlife trafficking have contributed to drastic frog population declines in recent years globally and locally.
Erin Lundy is the Manager of Conservation Initiatives at the Aquarium of the Pacific. She cares for marine mammals and amphibians and participates in conservation projects and partnerships with organizations that include Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sea Otter Surrogacy Program and Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Project. She also serves as liaison to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network to help coordinate efforts to rehabilitate animals affected by oil spills. Lundy holds a BS in biology for Northeastern University and a MS in environmental management from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Robert Fisher, conservation biologist and landscape ecologist, has been with the Western Ecological Research Center at the US Geological Survey for 26 years following a postdoc funded also by USGS at University of California San Diego, that followed his Ph.D. at University of California Davis. His research and work focuses on understanding the drivers of change within the South Coast Ecoregion with a filter on biodiversity conservation and ecological integrity. Much of his team’s work is focused on critically endangered species in this landscape and trying to avert their extinction.
Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs, amphibians that are native to California and were once abundant in the local mountain regions, have nearly disappeared from their historic range. Learn about the Aquarium’s conservation efforts to aid in the recovery of these critically endangered animals and why it matters.
