What: Monitoring is essential to our understanding of insects in the modern era, the Anthropocene, and monitoring comes in many different forms and serves different purposes. Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations. He will also talk about data from projects supported by community scientists, which are going to be of increasing importance in the coming years. Finally, Matt will discuss new efforts to organize information on species that appear to be lost, but, with effort from scientists and the public, might be found again.

• Details:

• This is a free virtual webinar. This webinar will be recorded and available on their YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar. Register here.

• When: Thursday, January 9th, 2025; 11am-12pm.

• Where: Virtual; Zoom. Register for link.