Rebecca Johnson is a co-director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences.  She is also a Research Associate in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology. For most of her academic career, she has focused on color pattern evolution and untangling the evolutionary history of nudibranchs. In her current work, she supports and grows a community of naturalists working together to discover nature and collect important species occurrence data. She is passionate about building coalitions around place-based nature connection, biodiversity documentation, and using species observations to understand climate change. In  2017, Rebecca was honored with the Bay Nature ‘Local Heroes for Environmental Education Award’, along with her co-director, Alison Young. Rebecca spearheads the Academy’s biodiversity work with the City of San Francisco.

In 2016, along with Alison Young and Lila Higgins of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, she co-founded the City Nature Challenge; a now global, annual contest between cities and metro areas to share observations of nature over four days in April. In 2019, over 150 cities participated, and together they made almost 1 million observations. Rebecca also co-created and directed Snapshot Cal Coast, an annual effort funded by the State of California, that mobilizes partners along the California Coast to make and share observations of coastal species in order to inform marine protected area management and document species range changes. She is a founding member of the San Francisco Children & Nature Coalition and the Co-Chair of the San Mateo Marine Protected Area Collaborative. Natural history and biodiversity-focused citizen science programs around the country and the world look to the work of her team as a model for engaging their own communities and gathering critical biodiversity data.

She earned her B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley,  M.A. in Systematics and Ecology from San Francisco State University, and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

More information can be found here.

DIVE IN with Liz and Sylvia is a casual, free-flowing, and educational conversation and encourages ocean and nature enthusiasts of all ages to join. Sylvia, Liz, and Rebecca will take questions via Q & A text from the attendees. Get your questions ready!

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Webinar is on November 10, 2022 at 3 pm Pacific time.

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