Tony Barnosky in Wyoming

Anthony Barnosky served as executive director of Stanford University’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve from 2016–2022 and is a professor emeritus in the department of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent most of his career.  He is a geologist, paleontologist, and conservation biologist who for more than 40 years has focused his research on past planetary changes and what they mean for forecasting the future of Planet Earth over the next few decades. He is a member of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international consortium of scholars whose mission is to understand and communicate how humans have dramatically influenced the Earth System over the past century, and how we are accelerating our impacts currently. His research centers in the American West but has also taken him to South America, India, China, Africa, and Europe in a quest to learn how past species reacted to major environmental changes and what that tells us about the changes to come in our future. Tony is the author of numerous scientific publications as well as op-eds, blog posts, and books aimed at communicating science to the public and policy makers.

During our program, he will discuss some of his work on the geology and paleontology of the Grand Teton region as well as current activities of the Anthropocene Working Group.