Bianca Lopez

Amherst

Bianca Lopez is a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Northeast Climate Science Center working at the intersection of invasion ecology and climate change to inform land management. Bianca uses spatial analyses and information on species’ traits to understand how people’s actions (directly and indirectly) affect natural communities, especially the diversity and composition of plants in urban areas. She has also collaborated with social scientists to study people’s interactions with nature and is interested in art as a way to communicate science and inspire conservation behavior.