NRS leader Steve Monfort featured in California science panel
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In early December, Steve Monfort, executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS), participated in a panel conversation organized by the California Natural Resources Agency, which oversees and supports more than 26 distinct departments, conservancies and commissions throughout the state.
The webinar, hosted by California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot, focused on the research happening throughout California to gain a better understanding of the climate challenges we face as a state and develop new solutions for addressing them.
Steve shared how the NRS is partnering with several universities and nonprofits to launch Sentinel Sites for Nature, a long-term monitoring collaborative established to create biodiversity baselines and to assess change over time. This data will then be used to create forecasting models related to how changes in climate, land use, wildfires and other natural disasters may affect biodiversity.
Hear from Steve and other climate experts by watching the video below.