Speaking about the landmark Great Lakes Winter Science Summary Report, Dr. Twiss explores the biggest winter challenges facing our region.

Stacy McNulty is Associate Director of Research and Research Associate for the Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC), a biological research station of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).  She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science and a Master of Science in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY-ESF and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from SUNY Geneseo.  Stacy has nearly thirty years of experience in field-based research, project management, citizen science training and mentoring of applied environmental scientists and teaches a course on Winter Ecology at ESF’s Newcomb Campus in the Hudson headwaters.  Her interests are broad and center on wildlife, forests, waters and landscapes.  Research highlights include authoring dozens of peer-reviewed science studies, overseeing publication of long-term datasets on lakes, birds, habitat and impacts of disturbance and management on northeastern ecosystems, monitoring ecological indicators of recreation impact on public lands in Adirondack Park, and informing statewide regulation, conservation and management of small, ephemeral wetlands called vernal pools, among other projects.  She serves as the Editor of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, an international group focused on facilitating collaborative field science and education, and is a past president of OBFS and a co-founder of the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, a participatory discovery project.  See http://www.esf.edu/faculty/mcnulty/. 

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