Dr. Michelle Gorman – Live-streamed – Some Significant Steps to Help Mitigate the Effects of Climate Shift
Dr. Michelle Gorman will outline in lay person terms the importance of biodiversity in terms of adjusting to the fluctuations involved with changing climates. What biodiversity is and what it is not. If you plant the right plants will the animals that need those plants for food, shelter and habitat follow? And what are the right plants?
A Not So Brief Biography: Michelle Gorman, Ph.D., is an entomologist with more than 30 years of experience in integrated pest management and insect and plant interactions, including vectoring plant diseases and invasive species management. She graduated from UVic with a B.Sc. in 1975, from Montana State University in 1979 with a M.Sc., with a major in Entomology and a minor in Plant Physiology, and from North Dakota State University in 1982 with a Ph.D. in Entomology and a minor in Plant Pathology. Michelle worked for City of Victoria Parks as the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Coordinator, and she co-chaired the Municipal Committee of the B.C. Plant Protection Advisory Council. She is a member of the Restoration and Management RIG of GOERT and co-chaired its Invasive Species Steering Committee. She looks for the delicate balance of pest management in context with environmental conservation.
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