The National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation

October 22 - 24, 2014

Toni Lyn Morelli

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
USA

Biographical Sketch: Toni Lyn is a proud graduate of Michigan State University. She went on to obtain her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, studying lemur behavior and ecology in Madagascar. Under National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship funding, she studied the impacts of climate change on small mammals in the Sierra Nevada; she continues these collaborations examining climate refugia under funding she obtained from the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative. She has also worked for the U.S. Forest Service, both as a research ecologist focused on climate adapatation and as the Technical Advisor on climate mitigation and conservation to the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to her role as Program Manager for the NE CSC, Toni Lyn uses geospatial analysis, species distribution modeling, occupancy modeling, and population and landscape genetics techniques to facilitate natural resource management and habitat and species conservation in the face of climate and land use change. Currently she is investigating how climate change is affecting small mammal populations in the northeastern United States.

Papers:
207 LCC-CSC Collaborations: Projects and Progress P19 Climate Change Refugia as a Tool for Climate Adaptation