Next NAS Seminar is on March 6

There will be a NAS Seminar on the ecology and conservation of mammals in Costa Rica’s Caribbean rainforests on Friday, March 6 in the Environmental Sciences Building, Room 301. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m., and the talk will begin at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Natural and Applied Sciences Seminar speaker Prof. Andrea Romero from UW-Whitewater will discuss her research on how the human activities of isolating and degrading forests affect mammal communities in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands, and whether these ecosystems are recovering. Prior to the seminar, Romero will also be speaking about bias and inclusivity in the sciences at 2 p.m. in ES 301.