Prof. Hernandez and colleagues win a half million dollar Sloan Foundation Grant

Prof. Hernandez and her colleagues from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and UC Davis received a $490,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment Program to anticipate and understand conflicts between conservation and renewable energy (RE) siting by intersecting species’ climate change-induced range shifts with maps of RE potential in the United States. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment program looks to achieve its mission by supporting research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts in this domain that shape the direction of scholarship by investigating under-explored questions that warrant further attention, advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the social and natural sciences Dr. Toni Lyn Morelli (UMass), Dr. Adam Smith (Missouri Botanical Garden), Prof. Gwen Arnold (UC Davis) and Prof. Tyler Scott (UC Davis) are the Co-PIs on this interdisciplinary grant.