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Summary
Welcome back to Semel HCI Center’s LiveWell podcast! We’re returning from a recording hiatus and are thrilled to have you here for our first episode of this year. In the aftermath of the January fires in Los Angeles, we are recovering and coming together as a community to heal and are reminded of what we can do to take care of each other and ourselves. Today’s episode features a conversation with Morgan Tingley, a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, who shares his research on birds, environmental impact especially with the growing number of fires, and what we can do to help our native wildlife while also helping our well-being.
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More about Dr. Morgan Tingley
Morgan Tingley, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and faculty in the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is an expert on how climate change and other environmental changes impact biodiversity, primarily birds. His research, which largely focuses on birds in temperate mountain environments, including California’s Sierra Nevada, examines how species shift their ranges and the timing of their activities in response to rising temperatures and other effects of climate change. Tingley is a leading authority on the effects of wildfire on biodiversity, specifically in the western United States. For over a decade, he has studied how birds respond during and after fires and, in particular, how the increase in massive forest fires is negatively affecting species.
