Join us for the May 14th Sierra Club Adventure Coast Group Meet Up. 6:30 social, 7- 8pm guest presentation at the GFWC Historic Brooksville Womans Club, 131 South Main Street in Brooksville. Public welcome! Bring a friend.

Dr. René Wiesner Brown wlll speak on From Local to Global: Coastal Restoration and Resilience. She’ll describe Ecosphere Restoration Institute’s coastal habitat restoration and resiliency projects in Tampa Bay and across Florida. René will explain the benefits of living shorelines and how Ecosphere’s living shorelines held up through Hurricanes Helene and Milton. René will also discuss her role as a member of the Expert Review Group of the United Nations Race to Resilience and how local projects contribute to global goals.

Dr. René Wiesner Brown is the Senior Director of Habitat Restoration of the nonprofit Ecosphere Restoration Institute. She is an appointed member of the Expert Review Group of the UN Race to Resilience and a Civil Society Observer of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She is also Chair of the Florida Wildlife Federation and a founding Board Member and current Vice President of the Tampa Bay Conservancy. René earned her doctorate in Integrative Biology from the University of South Florida and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. She has been a Sierra Club member for 25 years.

To participate remotely via Zoom, please register in advance at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/aTd27kxRRZiOfjOgWeXBow

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For more information, check out our website at www.sierraclub.org/florida/adventure-coast, email sierraclubadventurecoastcc@gmail.com or call 352 277-3330. Find us on Facebook.