03/20/25: David Lodge
March 20, 2025
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Location: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Lake Superior Hall and Virtual
Presenter: David M. Lodge, Francis J. DiSalvo Director of Cornell University’s Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
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About the speaker: Dr. David M. Lodge is the Francis J. DiSalvo director of Cornell University’s Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. He is an internationally recognized environmental scientist, with expertise in environmental risk assessment, freshwater and marine coastal ecology, ecosystem services, bioeconomics, and invasive species. His research has improved ecological forecasting to better inform environmental risk assessment, natural resource management, and policy development. Lodge is a leader in the development and application of environmental DNA (eDNA), a transformative technological tool for discovering unrecognized biodiversity, censusing aquatic biodiversity, and improving the management of imperiled, invasive, or harvested species. He is past president of the Ecological Society of America, and former senior science advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of Polar Affairs. On numerous occasions he has testified before the U.S. Congress, and served as an expert witness in federal court. He is faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell
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