Adina M. Merenlender

Adina Merenlender is a Cooperative Extension Specialist at University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Science, Policy and Management Department) and is an internationally recognized conservation biologist working on environmental problem solving at the landscape-scale.  She has published over 70 scientific research articles focused on underlying relationships between land use and biodiversity and co-authored the only comprehensive book on wildlife corridor planning “Corridor Ecology: The science and practice of linking landscapes for biodiversity conservation.”  Over the past fifteen years she has trained graduate students as well as worked with decision-makers to couple conservation and land use planning using spatially-explicit decision-support systems.