This year’s Kolshorn Lecture, Think Before You Leap: Considering Conservation Strategies in the Anthropocene, is by Selina Heppell, Professor and Department Head in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University. Dr. Heppell will talk about evaluating when and how to intervene to mitigate climate change impacts on species, using transdisciplinary approaches that integrate modeling, field trials, and participatory science.
Each year, the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota invites a distinguished scientist or conservationist to campus to give the Kolshorn Lecture. The Kolshorn lecture series was established in 1982 to honor Otto W. Kolshorn. Otto Kolshorn was a farmer, teacher, school board member, and Justice-of-the Peace from Goodhue County, Minnesota, who served 5 terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives.