<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Futura" style="font-size: 14px;">Save the Date! You’re invited!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Futura" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://forms.gle/RhoSAjbfK3b68P2H7">Sign up to present</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><img alt="EcoSlam2025.png" src="cid:049D3BEB-5E2F-4478-8E68-2ECB4BC09BF3"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d448c76-7fff-7313-3772-63dd0f9f8272" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">UCR's Center for Conservation Biology presents the 7th annual</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-style: normal;"><font face="Impact"><b>EcoSlam!</b></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">Tuesday, April 22, 2025 3pm-5pm</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">At the UCR Botanic Gardens</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">All academic levels are welcomed to attend and compete in 5 minute lightning talks on original research.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">$$ Prizes awarded! $$</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">EcoSlam is an event for students working in all fields of conservation, ecology, restoration, environmental studies, and natural resource management. </font></span></p><font face="Futura"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">Keynote speaker Dr. Alison Ormsby: </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">"Bridging Nature and Culture: from Global Sacred Forests to Documenting California's Biodiversity"</font></span></p><font face="Futura"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font face="Futura">Please share! Email mbuck007@ucr.edu or gmone001@ucr.edu for any questions.</font></span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div></body></html>