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SUMMARY:Beyond Biodiversity Monitoring: Measuring Conservation Impact and
  Informing Decisions ft. Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Gund Institute for a special talk by MacMilla
 n Visiting Scholar Dr. Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez.\\nAbout the talk: Despite 
 significant advances in biodiversity monitoring and our ability to analyz
 e large-scale ecological data\\, determining whether conservation efforts
  are delivering measurable outcomes for nature remains a major challenge.
  Moving beyond documenting biodiversity patterns and trends requires gene
 rating credible evidence that can directly inform conservation decisions 
 and evaluate the impact of investments in nature. In this talk\\, Ruiz-Gu
 tierrez will present examples of how her team has used biodiversity monit
 oring data to inform policy\\, guide investments in regenerative agricult
 ure\\, and begin to assess their outcomes. Drawing lessons from this work
 \\, she will also discuss the benefits and challenges of working with par
 tners outside academia to translate scientific findings into action that 
 can improve biodiversity outcomes at scale.\\n About the speaker: Viviana
  Ruiz-Gutierrez is the Assistant Director at the Center for Avian Populat
 ion Studies and the Program Leader of Conservation Science at the Cornell
  Lab of Ornithology. She is also the founder and Associate Director of th
 e Coastal Solutions Fellows Program. Viviana earned her B.Sc. in Tropical
  Biology from the National University of Costa Rica\\, her Ph.D. from the
  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University\\, 
 and spent several years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department o
 f Fish\\, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University.
  Viviana has spent most of her career supporting and developing projects 
 related to bird research and conservation in Latin America\\, including t
 he development and application of novel statistical models to study the i
 mpacts of land-use changes on bird populations. She is specifically activ
 e in capacity building efforts\\, and in the past decade\\, she has taugh
 t courses on the design and analysis of wildlife monitoring programs to o
 ver 150 students from 14 countries. She is an elected member of the AOU c
 ouncil\\, on the Board of the Neotropical Ornithological Society\\, and C
 o-Chair of the NABCI Monitoring Subcommittee.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/us
 a-canada/united-states/burlington/events/beyond-biodiversity-monitoring-m
 easuring-conservation-impact-and-informing-decisions-ft-viviana-ruiz-guti
 errez-2026-10-26
LOCATION:UVM Prism Center
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/burlington/events/beyond-biodiversity-monitoring-measuring-conservation-impact-and-informing-decisions-ft-viviana-ruiz-gutierrez-2026-10-26
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