“Tick, Talk” on March 2 covered by The Campus
The March 2 Sustainability lecture, “Tick, Talk: Integrating biological and social science research to address ticks and Lyme disease in ,” by Dr. Carly Sponarski was featured in a by The Campus, U’s student newspaper. The talk focused on the intersections between tick ecology in , land management decisions, and the exposure of landowners and forest workers to ticks and tick-borne disease.
Dr. Sponarski is an assistant professor of Wildlife, Fisheries & Conservation Biology and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow. She outlined and gave updates on a study that “integrate[s] natural and social science research, extension, and education to develop and test adaptive land management practices to protect private forest landowners, foresters, and loggers against exposure to tick-borne disease.” The researchers are now starting the second year of the three-year project.
The results of this study will be used to “inform practical recommendations to mitigate the impacts of climate change on tick-borne disease transmission that are based on scientific data and compatible with landowners’ economic interests.”
View a video of this talk, as well as previous talks from this semester and in past years, here.