<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;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a7b673c0-7fff-eeff-c98b-85c7a4ac13ca"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><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;"><font face="Futura"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomorrow</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">! Everyone</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">’</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">s invited!</span></font></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Futura"><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;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="EcoSlam2025.png" src="cid:A30BD601-07EB-4D39-A6DB-96BA4FCE3645"></span></font><br></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; 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;">UCR's Center for Conservation Biology presents the 7th annual</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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="Futura">EcoSlam!</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">Tuesday, April 22, 2025 3pm-5pm</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">At the UCR Botanic Gardens</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">All academic levels are welcomed to attend and compete in </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">5-minute lightning talks on original research.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">$$ Prizes awarded! $$</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><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><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><font face="Futura"><br><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">Keynote speaker Dr. Alison Ormsby: </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; 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-style: normal;"><font face="Futura">"Bridging Nature and Culture: from Global Sacred Forests to Documenting California's Biodiversity"</font></span></p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><font face="Futura"><br><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.656; margin: 0pt 30pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; 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="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);"></body></html>