Environmental Fridays, Oct. 14
Welcome to Season III, Episode 5, of Environmental Fridays ... it is personal.
Join us this coming Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, for Environmental Fridays, Episode 5, at 9:30 a.m. EST, to listen and learn about "Grenada's Cautionary Tale: Conservation and Coastal Development" with Grenadian scholar and environmental activist Jody Daniel, PhD.
Our co-host for Episode 5 is sociology lecturer Claude J. Douglas, T. A. Marryshow Community College, St. George's, Grenada.
The Zoom Meeting link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85270285938?pwd=REpoc3VjVkdRN1dJRkkvbDd2eHJvZz09.
- Meeting ID: 852 7028 5938
- Passcode: 948025
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Contact Desmond Hartwell Murray, associate professor of chemistry, at murrayd@andrews.edu if you have any questions.
Guest Speaker Bio
Jody Daniel, PhD, is a community and wetland ecologist interested in how changes in environmental conditions, whether driven by climate or land use activities, affect biological communities. She applies tools and concepts from landscape ecology, community ecology and geography to investigate how plants, birds and aquatic macroinvertebrates are likely affected by climate and land use. Besides her work in the Reinsurance industry as data scientist, she is the executive director of Gaea Conservation Network in Grenada—a non-governmental organization focused on biological monitoring and citizen science. She holds a bachelor’s (BSc) degree in biology (magna cum lade) from St. George’s University, Grenada, a master’s (MSc) in natural resources management from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and a PhD in ecology and environmental biology from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Co-Host Bio
Claude J. Douglas is a lecturer in sociology and an immediate past chair of the Social Sciences Department at the T. A. Marryshow Community College (TAMCC) for ten consecutive years and a former member of the College’s Academic Board. He is a self-published author of seven books on social and political issues in Grenada and the Caribbean. Douglas is also the author of two professional articles titled "The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Grenada" published in the Encyclopaedia of Caribbean Religions and "The Grenada Revolution and Religion" published by Cambridge Scholars Press. Douglas was the recipient of the 1992 J. Antonio Jarvis Award for excellence in sociology at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas campus, and was named among the university’s 50 most influential graduates at its 60th anniversary celebration. He also conducts social impact assessment for a number of environmental scientists and consultants in Grenada.
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