The ABS Program sponsors a speaker series each semester that features practitioners and scholars in the field of conservation science from Texas A&M or invited from other institutions.
All talks are held at 4pm on Zoom unless noted otherwise (**).
For our full calendar of events, including departmental seminars and ABS activities, click here.
| Date | Speaker, Seminar Title or Topic, Host | |
| wed sep 30 |
 Gary Varner, Professor, Texas A&M UniversityA Two-Level Utilitarian Perspective on “Compassionate Conservation” Abstract: The idea of “compassionate conservation” is receiving increasing attention in the field of conservation biology. In 2018, an essay by Wallach et al. was published in Conservation Biology with the title “Summoning Compassion to Address the Challenges of Conservation,” and the August 2019 edition devoted a “Conservation Focus” section to six essays on the topic, all of them responding (to some extent) to that 2018 essay. In this presentation, I want to emphasize some ways in which each side of this debate tends to caricature the other, and how a particular kind of utilitarianism—the two-level utilitarianism of R.M. Hare—offers a new, plausible perspective on the issue. |
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| mon oct 5 |
 Anna Armitage, Professor, TAMU GalvestonClimate change and coastal ecosystems: Ecological consequences of mangrove expansion into salt marshes Co-hosted with the EEB program |
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| fri oct 23 |
 Alexa Woods, Texas A&M UniversityClimate-Driven Food Insecurity, Gender, and Decision-Making Capability in West African Subsistence Farming Households Co-hosted with the Department of Geography |
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| mon nov 23 |
 Roberto Mendoza, Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo LeonMultidisciplinary research for the domestication of alligator gar in Mexico Co-hosted with the EEB program |
