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Assisted Gene Flow and Climate Change Responses Workshop 2025

March 7-9, 2025, Golden Gate Conference and Retreat Center
Contact: Dr. Ben Blackman ([email protected])

Looking for Logistics, Program and Presentation Details? Go to the bottom of this page!
This workshop will provide a forum for land managers, native plant nurseries, and scientists working in academia based in California and Oregon to exchange experiences, best practices, and policy related to current and emerging knowledge associated with guiding ecologically informed applications of assisted gene flow.

Workshop Objectives:
  • Engaging managers and scientists in conversation about the range of current practices being implemented, considered, or prohibited by their agencies or programs
  • Sharing fundamental knowledge about organismal and evolutionary responses to climate change
  • Identifying logistical and technological opportunities and hurdles for native seed procurement and measuring environmental, genotypic, and phenotypic data​
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This workshop takes place at Nature Bridge's Golden Gate Conference and Retreat Center located near Sausalito, California.

Participation is currently by invitation only. Lodging and food is provided for participants and travel stipends are available for participants.

​This workshop is funded by an NSF Organismal Responses to Climate Change grant (IOS-2222466) that is a collaboration between Ben Blackman (UC Berkeley), Nic Kooyers (UL-Lafayette), Jay Sexton (UC Merced), and Dan Runcie and Siobhan Brady at UC Davis.

Keynote Speaker

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Dr. Jill Anderson
University of Georgia

Local adaptation in a rapidly changing climate: Insights from a North American wildflower, Boechera stricta

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Schedule of Events (Short Version - full program link)

Friday March 7
     Afternoon Arrival (5pm registration on site)
     Group Dinner and Introductions
     Keynote Address
     Keynote Reception

Saturday March 8
     Group Breakfast

     Morning Session - Current Practices, Perceptions, and Policies
     Talks by land managers, policy makers, and Nursery Managers
     Morning Discussion - Synthesize across districts, agencies, and private industry
     
     Group Lunch 

     Afternoon Session - Sharing fundamental knowledge from basic and applied research
     Talks by academics and agency researchers 
           Species responses to changing climates, Evidence for/against applied solutions 

     Group Dinner and Campfire

Sunday March 9
     
Group Breakfast

     Morning Session: Logistical and Technological Opportunities
     Breakout sessions and Round Table discussion
     Group Statements and White Paper Synthesis

     Group Lunch
     Afternoon Departure


Workshop Logistics, Program, and Presentation Links

Full Program Schedule 

Getting to the Workshop

Accommodation and Meal Logistics

Carpool Arrangements

Presentation Guidelines

Nature Bridge Venue Documents

The conference venue (Nature Bridge) also provides some logistic information that maybe useful. Please let us know if you have questions.

Nature Bridge Site Map


Nature Bridge Health & Safety Plan

Nature Bridge Conference Events Guidelines and Preparation

Nature Bridge Dietary Restrictions
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