Weathering Winter: Strategies for Terrestrial Animals to Survive the Cold
Join Karen Seaver of the Harris Center for Conservation Education to explore winter wildlife adaptations!
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Location
Online
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This program will explore examples of how animals cope with the onset and persistence of wintertime low temperatures. Tales of adaptations and behaviors of selected animals, some from our local woodlands, such as black bears and wood frogs, and others from further afield, such as polar bears and caribou, will be presented to provide some themes of how terrestrial animals respond when the mercury drops.
About the Presenter
Karen Seaver signed on as Staff Ecologist at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, NH at the beginning of 2020, where she supports the conservation research and education goals of the Center largely through fieldwork in the forests of protected lands. Additionally, Karen has taught courses related to the natural world for more than a decade at Keene State College in the Department of Environmental Studies, including courses in Ecology, Global Environmental Change, Sustainability, and Ecosystem Conservation. Karen traces her abiding love for extreme environments to her travel to Antarctica’s Dry Valleys for ecology research during graduate school. Karen lives in the rural hills of Alstead, NH with her husband and two young children.