Join the Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI), Paul Smith's College VIC, and Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station for a celebration of World Peatlands Day! This informal discussion will host the Adirondack Watershed Institute's Science Director Michale Glennon, Ph.D. and Director of the Shingle Shanty Preserve and Research Station Steve Langdon. With nearly 50 years of combined experience in Adirondack conservation and research, they will discuss their experiences working in the bogs of the Adirondacks. This event will be a kickoff to the Great Adirondack Birding Celebration (GABC), held June 3rd-5th.
Register for this free online event here
Michale Glennon serves as the Science Director of the Paul Smith's College Adirondack Watershed Institute. She is interested in the effects of land use management on wildlife populations in the Adirondacks and is engaged in research ranging from issues of residential development to recreation ecology to climate change. She is an ecologist and previously spent 15 years as the Director of Science for the Adirondack Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. At AWI, Michale works to support and help shape the scientific research program, provide high quality research opportunities for students, and distribute and champion AWI's work in order to enhance the use of science in the management and stewardship of the natural resources of the Adirondack Park. Michale obtained her B.S. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth College, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF. She grew up in Lake Placid, NY and lives in Ray Brook with her husband, Scott and their two children.
Stephen Langdon has 25 years of experience in the Adirondacks working on conservation from shovel-in-hand trail maintenance to biodiversity research with government and private organizations. He has a Masters degree in Ecology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, as well as a B.S in Ecology and a B.A. in Philosophy from SUNY Plattsburgh, where he is an adjunct instructor in the Center for Earth and Environmental Science. Steve is involved in a number of research efforts surrounding impacts of human-caused global environmental change on biodiversity within the boreal-temperate ecotone with a particular focus on peatlands. When he is not at Shingle Shanty he lives with his wife and two young sons in Saranac Lake.