Seminar: Aly Putnam, UMass Boston
Join us on Thursday, April 16 at 2:00pm for our Stone Living Lab Seminar featuring Aly Putnam to learn about a new intertidal monitoring framework and how to adapt field methods for inclusivity.
Join us on Thursday, April 16 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm for our Stone Living Lab Seminar featuring Aly Putnam, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate at UMass Boston. In this seminar, Aly will be sharing insights from a project in collaboration with the USGS and NPS where they developed a novel monitoring framework to assess biodiversity on the Boston Harbor Islands, as well as adapting methods for inclusivity.
This seminar is free to all and will be hosted on Zoom. Please register using the button above.
About Aly
Aly Putnam is a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a marine ecologist whose research focuses on invertebrates and seaweeds in the context of climate change and climate adaptation. She uses experiments, modeling, and synthesis to understand physiological performance and inform adaptation and restoration strategies in coastal systems. Her additional research expertise centers on biological invasions and their ecological impacts. She earned her BS and MS from Smith College and her PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Additional Resources:
- A Novel Monitoring Framework to Assess Intertidal Biodiversity in Mixed Coarse Substrate Habitats Across the Boston Harbor Islands
- StoryMap: Climate Impacts on Coastal Biodiversity in the Boston Harbor
- Historical insights, current challenges: tracking marine biodiversity in an urban harbor ecosystem in the face of climate change