Topic: Silver City Watershed Keepers Project Coordinator / Pick It Up – Toss No Moss Coordinator
Alesia grew up in the forests of eastern Oklahoma. There, she felt the joy of playing in creeks, climbing oak trees, and living with wildlife and farm animals alike. Her curiosity about the natural world led her to B.S. degrees in Botany and Zoology from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. in Aridland Ecology from the University of New Mexico. As a researcher with the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research program, Alesia studied the relationship between long-term patterns of climate, plant growth, and animal population dynamics across the Southwestern U.S. Alesia is passionate about sharing her ecological knowledge, often working with students to access the outdoors, conducting collaborative research, and communicating findings with local stakeholders. Alesia has come to appreciate the increasingly rare privilege she enjoyed as a child; many people don't have a positive relationship with nature and the earth that sustains them. As the coordinator of the Silver City Watershed Keepers and Pick It Up-Toss No Mas programs, Alesia hopes to protect natural spaces and waterways of the greater Gila bioregion and encourage people to connect with their local ecosystems.
The Rotary Club will meet in the conference room of Gila Regional Medical Center. Visitors should enter through the main entrance. There is a brief "meet and greet", and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings. Lunch is available in the hospital cafeteria. Guests are advised to arrive in the cafeteria well before noon.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.
