Dr. Adina M. Merenlender

Adina Merenlender has been a Professor in Cooperative Extension in Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley since 1995. Her position is based at the Hopland Research and Extension Center, a 5,000-acre field station in Mendocino County. She also served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Queensland Department of Zoology in Brisbane, Australia (2004); at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City (2008); and with the Cambridge Conservation Initiative through the University of Cambridge Zoology Department in 2019.

She is a conservation biologist with over 100 scientific research articles on the forces that influence biodiversity loss. Her work in environmental problem solving includes the use of spatially-explicit decision-support systems for conservation planning. Adina started the UC California Naturalist program and is now helping to build UC Climate Stewards to increase climate literacy and help citizens take an active role in climate stewardship. She is also the co-author of “Corridor Ecology”, “The California Naturalist Handbook”, and "Climate Stewardship" See more at http://ucanr.org/sites/merenlenderConservation Science and Stewardship (berkeley.edu)