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Community Science used in City of Surrey’s Biodiversity Strategy – Pamela Zevit

Action for Adaptation Community Science webinar: Community Science and managing for biodiversity in the City of Surrey – Pamela Zevit, Biodiversity Conservation Planner, City of Surrey. Pamela explains how community science is being used to inform implementation of the City of Surrey’s Biodiversity Strategy. One of the main elements of the strategy is the establishment of ecological connectivity corridors that connects key biodiversity hubs. Community science has become one of the key tools to monitor biodiversity and filling data gaps. The data is used to inform land use planning for the City’s Green Infrastructure Network. As a Registered Professional Biologist, Pamela's career focus has been on landscape ecology, species at risk and biodiversity conservation. Starting in 1995, she worked as a Conservation Planner for the Province of BC. In 2004, she moved on from government to become an independent adviser, researcher, and consultant. In 2010, she became Program Coordinator for the South Coast Conservation Program, transitioning to her role with Surrey in 2019 leading implementation of the City's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy. The City of Surrey was one of the first to introduce a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy and Pamela has been leading this work for several years. In this webinar on How Community Science can inform Land Use Planning and Stewardship, held on 23 May 2024, local government, First Nations and scientists discussed various ways in which community science is being used for conservation. Watch the talks by the other webinar speakers: Mapping land cover using satellite and community science data in southwest British Columbia - Dr. Erin Crockett, postdoctoral fellow, Earth Observation and Spatial Ecology lab, University of British Columbia for the Action for Adaptation project Using historical and community science biodiversity data to understand change in bumble bee and vascular plant communities on Galiano Island - Andrew Simon, Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in The Salish Sea (IMERSS)   Use of community science to develop integrated species distribution models in the Howe Sound Biosphere Reserve - Katherine Andy and Andrew Simon, Squamish Environmental Society  This event is part of UBC Biodiversity Days. Biodiversity Days is a month-long celebration every May that honours the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22) hosted by UBC Botanical Garden in collaboration with SEEDS Sustainability Program. Biodiversity Days is made possible with funding provided through the UBC Botanical Garden Community Outreach Fund and with funds from the SEEDS Sustainability Program. This webinar was organized by Action for Adaptation, a collaborative project of the UBC Botanical Garden and the Coastal Douglas-fir Conservation Partnership that is developing decision and policy support tools for local governments and First Nations on BC’s south west coast to support actions for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. www.actionforadaptation.ca