Dr. Jessica Hellmann

The University of Michigan Biological Station is delighted to share Dr. Jessica Hellmann's Pettingill Endowed Lecture in Natural History as part of the Summer Lecture Series.

On Wednesday, July 21st, Hellmann presented "Population biology: in study, in practice, and in the human imagination."

Hellmann is the director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and the Ecolab Chair in Environmental Leadership. Her Pettingill lecture focused in particular on biodiversity, adaptation, and harm mitigation amid a changing climate, informed by her research on global change ecology and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Watch below as Dr. Hellmann presents "Population biology: in study, in practice, and in the human imagination." Please join us on August 10th for Dr. Knute Nadelhoffer's Bennett Endowed Lecture in Plant & Fungal Ecology -- "Biological Controls on Forest Soil Organic Matter Accumulation: Lessons from the DIRT Collaboration."