John Mola is an assistant professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship with a particular focus on pollinators, conservation and ecology. His lab is working to find solutions for insect and pollinator declines, including bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.

Most recently published in BioScience and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mola and his co-authors explore and explain how important forests are to bumble bees, how they’re being overlooked in conservation planning, and the impact of climate, land cover and pesticides that will likely result in the loss of the species in its historic range by the end of the century.

Mola was a first-generation student, earning his bachelor’s degree in geography at Florida State University, his master of Biology at Humboldt State University and his Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California, Davis.