Plenary Speakers
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"Stress Equivalence: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation Battles in the Anthropocene" — Dr. Marjorie Brooks, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Dr. Brooks investigates how multiple stressors, including pollution and climate change, impact aquatic ecosystems. Her research examines the underlying bioenergetic theories and understand how, by lowering the energetic costs of one stressor, organisms can survive the evolutionary bottleneck of many other stressors in a rapidly changing world. Her research has taken her to the northern Bering Sea and San Francisco Estuary, as well as to rivers in Serbia, Hungary, and Colorado, with current projects in Yellowstone National Park, Nevada, and Southern Illinois. Previously, Dr. Brooks was a Postdoctoral Associate with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Dr. Brooks has PhD in Zoology and Physiology, MA in Archaeology, and a BS in Natural Science/Mathematics.
Dr. Brooks investigates how multiple stressors, including pollution and climate change, impact aquatic ecosystems. Her research examines the underlying bioenergetic theories and understand how, by lowering the energetic costs of one stressor, organisms can survive the evolutionary bottleneck of many other stressors in a rapidly changing world. Her research has taken her to the northern Bering Sea and San Francisco Estuary, as well as to rivers in Serbia, Hungary, and Colorado, with current projects in Yellowstone National Park, Nevada, and Southern Illinois. Previously, Dr. Brooks was a Postdoctoral Associate with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Dr. Brooks has PhD in Zoology and Physiology, MA in Archaeology, and a BS in Natural Science/Mathematics.
"Toxics, Environmental Justice and Equity" — Deldi Reyes, Environmental Justice Manager, Office of the Secretary, CalEPA; and Vanessa Galavíz, Environmental Justice Public Health Scientist, Office of the Secretary, CalEPA
Ms. Reyes provides training on environmental justice and racial equity to state employees. She has trained over a thousand government employees on environmental justice. Ms Reyes co-leads CalEPA’s racial equity team. CalEPA is a member of the California Collaborative on Race and Equity, a state-wide network of state and local jurisdictions working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Ms. Reyes worked for more than 25 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Rocky Mountain West Region as an inspector and enforcement officer under Clean Air and Clean Water Act programs. She helped launch the environmental justice program in US EPA’s Rocky Mountain West Region and managed the environmental justice program at US EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region. At the national level, Ms. Reyes helped develop US EPA’s Community Action for a Renewed Environment program—a grant program to support community-driven environmental health priorities. Ms. Reyes has a MS in Environmental Science and a BS in Biology.
Dr. Galaviz’s work focuses on public health issues related to environmental disparities in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. She is Mexican-American and experienced first-hand the struggles of living in an underserved community in Los Angeles, and was first in her family to attend college and graduate school. Dr. Galavíz has experience in multiple aspects of the public health field, including, determinants of health, biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility, cumulative impacts, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment, participatory research, community science, and science-policy work.
Ms. Reyes provides training on environmental justice and racial equity to state employees. She has trained over a thousand government employees on environmental justice. Ms Reyes co-leads CalEPA’s racial equity team. CalEPA is a member of the California Collaborative on Race and Equity, a state-wide network of state and local jurisdictions working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Ms. Reyes worked for more than 25 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Rocky Mountain West Region as an inspector and enforcement officer under Clean Air and Clean Water Act programs. She helped launch the environmental justice program in US EPA’s Rocky Mountain West Region and managed the environmental justice program at US EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region. At the national level, Ms. Reyes helped develop US EPA’s Community Action for a Renewed Environment program—a grant program to support community-driven environmental health priorities. Ms. Reyes has a MS in Environmental Science and a BS in Biology.
Dr. Galaviz’s work focuses on public health issues related to environmental disparities in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. She is Mexican-American and experienced first-hand the struggles of living in an underserved community in Los Angeles, and was first in her family to attend college and graduate school. Dr. Galavíz has experience in multiple aspects of the public health field, including, determinants of health, biomarkers of exposure and susceptibility, cumulative impacts, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment, participatory research, community science, and science-policy work.
