Session Summary and Speaker Bio

Session Title	Effects of Climate Change on Public Health
Target Audience	Grades 6 - 12
Session Summary	We will review the major effects climate change has on public health. Students will learn about fundamental metabolic changes to plants, changes in phenology, tropical disease vectors, USDA Hardiness Zone, our area’s UV Index as well as global changes to environmental health.

Presenter

Dr. John Pipoly

Program Coordinator
Broward County Parks & Recreation, Environmental Planning & Management

Dr. John Pipoly received his bachelor’s degree in Botany from Michigan State University, his M. Phil. and Ph. D. in systematic biology from the joint program of the City University of New York, the New York Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History. Subsequently, he carried out postdoctoral studies at the Smithsonian Institution, and was a Contract Specialist at EPA Headquarters, Superfund, where he was awarded a Bronze Medal for exemplary service. His FLS- indicates he is a Fellow of the Linnaean Society, an honor he has held during his 45 years of pantropical plant exploration.

John has published nearly 160 original research papers in 3 languages among internationally peer-reviewed journals and conducted fieldwork throughout the United States, Tropical Americas, Caribbean, the Philippines and New Guinea. He is an authority on the classification of the Marlberry and St. John's Wort plant families as well as tropical tree architectural models. He is co-author of the North American Botanic Garden Strategy for Plant Conservation and has published accounts in the Flora of North America series. For four decades he has collaborated with scientific consortia to document permanent biodiversity monitoring plots in the Americas, Caribbean, and Southeast Asia/Pacific regions. John published new models for Integrated Conservation and Development Areas (ICAD). He represents North American scientists for the Colombian National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, and is a Director-at-Large for the League of Environmental Educators in Florida. He is active in the Florida and National Recreation and Parks Associations, the Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance and the North American Association for Environmental Education.

John is a project/program coordinator for STEAM/Environmental Education, Volunteers and Grants, in the Broward County Parks and Recreation Environmental Planning and Management Group. As a scientific liaison, he serves on various Broward County Intergovernmental Committees related to sustainable development, green government, and environmental resilience areas.

Dr. Pipoly’s responsibilities include scientific outreach to schools, universities, municipal, state and federal governments, NGOs, to enhance programming in environmental- and education for sustainable development, to foment use of Broward County Parks, natural areas and nature centers as venues for innovative experiential learning. Through appointments as Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University and Florida Atlantic University, he brings students to Broward County Parks as they study in the areas of climate change, environmental science and education, plant developmental biology, plant systematics, ecology, biogeography, urban forestry, economic botany, sustainability and resilience. In his free time, John volunteers his taxonomic expertise by identifying poisonous plants for the Poison Control Centers of Jacksonville, Tampa and Miami.