Event Description
On Monday, August 17, Tapping Our Watershed presents, "How Freshwater-Friendly is that Certified Product You Just Bought" with Robin Abell, research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences
Tapping Our Watershed is held on the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at National Mechanics in Philadelphia’s Old City.
You’ve no doubt heard of environmental certification systems, and you may have even purchased certified ‘sustainable’ products, but how well do certification programs protect freshwater systems and the high conservation values that many of them contain? As certification programs expand, with companies in our own backyards sourcing certified commodities, it’s increasingly important that we understand how freshwater systems are – and aren’t – being accounted for in these programs and what improvements might be possible.
Robin Abell is a conservation biologist who specializes in developing approaches for broad-scale conservation planning to protect freshwater biodiversity. Over the course of 17 years at WWF-US’s Conservation Science Program, she led that organization’s freshwater science group as well as the Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Program and WWF’s Conservation Science Network. Robin is a research associate at the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at ANS and serves as science communications specialist for ANS’ Delaware River Watershed Initiative work. Robin also consults on a variety of conservation-related projects and is the communications specialist for a new USAID-funded program on climate change adaptation. She serves on the World Commission on Protected Areas’ Freshwater Taskforce, the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Freshwater Conservation and Species Conservation Planning sub-committees, and is excited to have recently joined the Tookany/Takony-Frankford Watershed Partnership’s Board of Advisors.
The event is free and open to the public. More information can be found on our Meetup page. Food and drink will be available for purchase at the bar. All ages are welcome, but you must be 21 to drink.
We hope you can join us for a fun and informal evening of scientific discussion!
Held in a comfortable, happy-hour setting, Tapping Our Watershed invites you to sit back, relax, and raise a glass to water science! Sophisticated enough for the experienced scientist but formatted for the casual guest, this lecture series taps into watershed issues on a deeper level. Follow the Delaware River Watershed Initiative on Twitter : @ANSStreamTeam. |
