Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Pyrocene

Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 1pm PT

For SAFE Connections September, our National SAFE Officers are joined by Dr. Gavin Jones, a Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. Click the button below to register!

Biography: Gavin (he/him) is a Research Ecologist with Rocky Mountain Research Station – Wildlife Ecology Program (USDA Forest Service) and holds an appointment as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of New Mexico. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and did postdoctoral research at the University of Florida. Gavin is an Associate Editor at Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and Fire Ecology which are the flagship peer-reviewed scientific journals of the Ecological Society of America and the Association for Fire Ecology, respectively. Gavin is a Kavli Fellow with the National Academy of Sciences and has been recognized with Early Career achievement awards from the American Ornithological Society (Ned K. Johnson Early Investigator) and the USDA (Early Career Scientist).