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Adina Merenlender

Adina Merenlender (born October 1, 1963) is a Professor of Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science at University of California, Berkeley in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department, and is an internationally recognized conservation biologist known for land-use planning, watershed science, landscape connectivity, and naturalist and stewardship training.

Adina M. Merenlender
Born
Adina Maya Merenlender

(1963-10-01) October 1, 1963 (age 61)
Seattle, Washington
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego
Princeton University
University of Rochester
Scientific career
FieldsConservation biology, environmental science
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
Thesis The Effects of Sociality on the Demography and Genetic Structure of Lemur fulvus rufus (polygamous) and Lemur rubriventer (monogamous) & the Conservation Implications[1]
Websitenature.berkeley.edu/merenlender/

Early life and education

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Merenlender was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in West Los Angeles, California.[2]

Merenlender graduated from UC California San Diego in 1985 with a BA in Biology, where she also received her MS from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1986.[3] She was a visiting graduate student at Princeton University from 1987 to 1993,[4] and she graduated from the University of Rochester in 1993 with a PhD in Biology.[3]

Career

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After earning her PhD in Biology, Merenlender did her post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University from 1993 to 1995,[5] researching riparian plant and aquatic insect communities on Great Basin working lands under different livestock grazing regimes.[6] She started her career at UC Berkeley as assistant cooperative extension specialist and adjunct professor in 1995, at which time she moved to Mendocino County to conduct research at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center, a 5,000-acre field station.[5]

Upon arriving in California's wine country, Merenlender conducted some of the first research in Vinecology,[7] the integration of ecological and viticultural practice to produce solutions for wine production and nature conservation.[8] Merenlender continues to advance conservation.[9][10][11] Her work across California's North Coast vineyard landscape also includes watershed studies, revealing ways to avoid summer water withdrawals from streams to irrigate wine grapes, which is a necessary step to recovering California's salmon runs.[12][13]

Merenlender led the earliest inquiries into the realized conservation benefits, or lack thereof, from conservation easements which spurred a large and still-growing body of scholarship on the topic.[14] She also provided some of the first evidence for the impacts of quiet recreation on meso-carnivores and sparked continued field research into recreation management to minimize these impacts.[15][16]

Merenlender started the California Naturalist Program[17] and served as its founding director,[5][18] which to date has graduated over 4,000 certified California Naturalists. Building on the success of this program, Merenlender helped start the first public education and service program on climate stewardship,[19] including writing Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California with Brendan Buhler.[20][21] The two programs provide collective impact on ecological health through community and citizen science.

In 2004, Merenlender was a visiting scholar at the University of Queensland Department of Zoology in Brisbane, Australia. She was also a visiting scholar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 2008, and with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative through the University of Cambridge Zoology Department in 2019.[5]

As president, Merenlender worked with the Governing Board and staff to reorganize the Society of Conservation Biology as a global network to preserve biodiversity.

Awards and honors

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  • President, Society for Conservation Biology, 2019-2021[22]
  • California Academy of Sciences Fellow, 2018[23]
  • Distinguished service award for outstanding extension work at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR), 2016[24]
  • Program of the Year, California Naturalist Program, by Alliance for Natural Resource Outreach and Service Programs, 2015[25]
  • Handling Editor, journal, Conservation Biology[26]
  • Section Editor, journal, PlosOne[27]

Published works

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Merenlender has published over 100 scientific research articles on the relationships between land use and biodiversity,[5] and co-authored a book on wildlife corridor planning, Corridor Ecology: The science and practice of linking landscapes for biodiversity conservation,[28] with the first edition published in 2006 and the second in 2019. She also co-authored The California Naturalist Handbook,[29] and Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California.[21]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ Merenlender, Adina Maya (August 2, 1993). The effects of sociality on the demography and genetic structure of Lemur fulvus rufus (polygamous) and Lemur rubriventer (monogamous) and the conservation implications – via catalog.princeton.edu.
  2. ^ Resources, University of California Agriculture and Natural. "Our Lab". ucanr.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  3. ^ a b "Adina MERENLENDER". Our Environment at Berkeley. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  4. ^ "Dobson Lab People". dobber.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Home Page - Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources". ucanr.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  6. ^ Kennedy, Tom B.; Merenlender, Adina M.; Vinyard, Gary L. (2000). "A Comparison of Riparian Condition and Aquatic Invertebrate Community Indices in Central Nevada". Western North American Naturalist. 60 (3): 255–272. ISSN 1527-0904. JSTOR 41717042.
  7. ^ Viers, Joshua H.; Williams, John N.; Nicholas, Kimberly A.; Barbosa, Olga; Kotzé, Inge; Spence, Liz; Webb, Leanne B.; Merenlender, Adina; Reynolds, Mark (2013-03-15). "Vinecology: pairing wine with nature". Conservation Letters. 6 (5): 287–299. Bibcode:2013ConL....6..287V. doi:10.1111/conl.12011. ISSN 1755-263X.
  8. ^ Heaton, Emily; Merenlender, Adina M. (May 2000). "Modeling vineyard expansion, potential habitat fragmentation". California Agriculture. 54 (3): 12–19. doi:10.3733/ca.v054n03p12. ISSN 0008-0845.
  9. ^ Kremen, C.; Merenlender, A. M. (2018-10-18). "Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people". Science. 362 (6412): eaau6020. doi:10.1126/science.aau6020. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 30337381. S2CID 53012788.
  10. ^ Muñoz-Sáez, Andrés; Kitzes, Justin; Merenlender, Adina M. (2020-08-20). "Bird-friendly wine country through diversified vineyards". Conservation Biology. 35 (1): 274–284. doi:10.1111/cobi.13567. ISSN 0888-8892. PMID 32510666. S2CID 219538145.
  11. ^ Muñoz-Sáez, Andrés; Heaton, Emily E.; Reynolds, Mark; Merenlender, Adina M. (September 2020). "Agricultural adapters from the vineyard landscape impact native oak woodland birds". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 300: 106960. Bibcode:2020AgEE..30006960M. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.106960. ISSN 0167-8809. S2CID 219523329.
  12. ^ Grantham, T. E.; Mezzatesta, M.; Newburn, D. A.; Merenlender, A. M. (2013-01-24). "Evaluating Tradeoffs Between Environmental Flow Protections and Agricultural Water Security". River Research and Applications. 30 (3): 315–328. doi:10.1002/rra.2637. ISSN 1535-1459. S2CID 59143072.
  13. ^ Grantham, Theodore E.; Newburn, David A.; McCarthy, Michael A.; Merenlender, Adina M. (May 2012). "The Role of Streamflow and Land Use in Limiting Oversummer Survival of Juvenile Steelhead in California Streams". Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 141 (3): 585–598. Bibcode:2012TrAFS.141..585G. doi:10.1080/00028487.2012.683472. ISSN 0002-8487.
  14. ^ Merenlender, A. M.; Huntsinger, L.; Guthey, G.; Fairfax, S. K. (February 2004). "Land Trusts and Conservation Easements: Who Is Conserving What for Whom?". Conservation Biology. 18 (1): 65–76. Bibcode:2004ConBi..18...65M. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00401.x. ISSN 0888-8892. S2CID 35032260.
  15. ^ Reed, Sarah E.; Merenlender, Adina M. (2008-06-28). "Quiet, Nonconsumptive Recreation Reduces Protected Area Effectiveness". Conservation Letters. 1 (3): 146–154. Bibcode:2008ConL....1..146R. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263x.2008.00019.x. ISSN 1755-263X. S2CID 13424093.
  16. ^ REED, SARAH E.; Merenlender, ADINA M. (2011-02-10). "Effects of Management of Domestic Dogs and Recreation on Carnivores in Protected Areas in Northern California". Conservation Biology. 25 (3): 504–513. Bibcode:2011ConBi..25..504R. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01641.x. ISSN 0888-8892. PMID 21309853. S2CID 15048789.
  17. ^ "Adina Merenlender: Building a new mode of extension for biodiversity conservation".
  18. ^ "Leadership Team - UC California Naturalist". calnat.ucanr.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  19. ^ "About UC Climate Stewards - UC California Naturalist". calnat.ucanr.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  20. ^ "UC California Naturalist Program launches UC Climate Stewards".
  21. ^ a b Merenlender, Adina; Buhler, Brendan (September 2021). Climate Stewardship. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520378940.
  22. ^ "Society for Conservation Biology | Board of Governors". conbio.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  23. ^ "Ukiah resident Adina Merenlender elected California Academy of Sciences fellow". The Ukiah Daily Journal. 2018-09-15. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  24. ^ "California Naturalist Program Highlights June 4–24". ANR Blogs.
  25. ^ "California Naturalist Program Receives National Award". Our Environment at Berkeley.
  26. ^ "The Society for Conservation Biology". Society for Conservation Biology. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1523-1739. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  27. ^ "PLOS ONE: accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  28. ^ "Corridor Ecology, Second Edition". Island Press. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
  29. ^ Nevers, Greg de; Edelman, Deborah Stanger; Merenlender, Adina (February 2013). The California Naturalist Handbook. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520274808.
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