Join us Thursday, November 5th, 2026 to celebrate with the Ashley Schiff Preserve Friendraiser!

We’ll have a guest speaker, Dr. Anna Thonis from Ecology & Evolution presenting her talk, “The Conservation Value of Our Campus Green Spaces” at 5:30PM.
Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Anna Thonis is an ecologist and conservation biologist whose research examines the effects of environmental change, including urbanization and climate change, on reptile ecology, with implications for biodiversity conservation. Her work spans Eastern box turtles and Italian wall lizards in New York and Anolis lizards in Puerto Rico. Dr. Thonis is a PRODiG+ Fellow jointly appointed in Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science and Department of Ecology and Evolution. She is also a Visiting Scientist at the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and the Founder and Co-Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Anoline Lizard Specialist Group.

5:00PM – 7:00PM
Student Activities Center Ballroom A
Stony Brook University
100 Nicolls Road, Stony Brook, NY 11794

Hope to see you there! RSVP below. Thank you!
RSVP for Ashley Schiff Preserve Friendraiser 2026