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Peter Kareiva
Peter Kareiva

Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, will deliver Gonzaga University’s 28th annual O’Leary Lecture titled, “Rethink, Revitalize, and Rebuilding the Environmental Movement: A Call for Tolerance and Nontraditional Partnerships,” at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 in the Cataldo Hall Globe Room on the Gonzaga campus.

 

Kareiva earned a master’s of science in environmental biology from the University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. In 2011, he was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research. Kareiva joined The Nature Conservancy in 2002 after more than 20 years in academics and work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where he directed the Northwest Fisheries Science Center Conservation Biology Division. 

He also co-founded the Natural Capital Project, a pioneering partnership between The Nature Conservancy, Stanford University and the World Wildlife Fund to develop credible tools that allow routine consideration of nature’s assets (or ecosystem services) in a way that informs the choices we make everyday at the scale of local communities and regions, all the way up to nations and global agreements. 

 

Gonzaga annually hosts a distinguished scientist from a major research university or institute as the O’Leary Lecturer for several days, primarily to meet with Gonzaga science majors. The visiting scientist delivers a specialized lecture and is officially introduced as the O’Leary Distinguished Scientist at a public lecture designed for general audiences.

 
 
Josie Camarillo
Josie Camarillo
Josie Camarillo is a recent graduate of Whitworth University, where she majored in English and psychology. Currently pursuing her Master in Social Work at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Camarillo writes for SpokaneFAVS from afar, but plans to return to the Spokane area after attaining her licensure as an independent social worker. She dreams of becoming a relationship therapist and a published author. Her hobbies include photography, horseback riding and writing poetry. Camarillo has a passion for photography and writing, especially poetry, and is interested in creative counseling methods like narrative therapy and using horses in therapy. Someday, she would like to be a counselor and a published poet. Her favorite poems are "The Singing Woman from the Wood's Edge" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and "The Art of Drowning" by Billy Collins. During fall 2013, Camarillo worked for Spokane Faith & Values as a copy editing intern, where her specialities included deleting Oxford commas and adding hyperlinks. Since then, she has transitioned into becoming a regular contributor to the site as a writer and photographer.

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