Dr. Vicky Meretsky is a professor of environmental sciences at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Her research interests include conservation planning, ecology of rare species, integrating ecosystem and endangered species management with adaptive management, and impacts of climate change on all of these. Current research areas include conservation planning on public lands, impacts of state and federal planting policies on managed relocation under climate change, and methods of improving teaching and training of graduate students of environmental science and policy.