We hope you can join this lecture — part of the monthly lecture series, You Don't Know What You Don't Know!

In this month's episode, we will be exploring sensitive coastal species with Laird Henkel, Senior Environmental Scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR). He will share with us a review of response considerations when dealing with oil spills in Snowy Plover habitat.

Laird Henkel has been with OSPR since 2007 and is currently the supervisor of OSPR’s Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care & Research Center in Santa Cruz. He has acted as Wildlife Branch Director for numerous spill responses in California. Prior to joining OSPR, Mr. Henkel worked on a variety of field projects with coastal birds, including monitoring of Western Snowy Plovers. 

Laird earned his bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz in California, and went on to earn his master's in marine science at the Moss Landing Marine labs, where he studied the spatial distribution of marine birds in Monterey Bay

Mark your calendar for the third Thursday of the month — and please feel free to share the series with others in the professional spill planning, response, and environmental science communities.