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Dr. Abigail Derby Lewis, Ph.D., Conservation Ecologist, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Presenter: Climate Impacts & Action in the Chicago Region
Dr. Derby Lewis is a conservation ecologist at The Field Museum of Natural History. Her work in the Science Action Center of the museum—a division dedicated to translating museum science into lasting results for conservation and cultural understanding—focuses on climate-change adaptation for urban natural areas in the Great Lakes region. She works closely with natural resource managers at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as municipal and community leaders, to develop place-based adaptation strategies.
Derby Lewis is co-chair of the Chicago Wilderness Climate Change Task Force and editor of the Chicago Wilderness Climate Change Newsletter.
Her Ph.D. is in biological anthropology and ecology, from Stony Brook University.