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This meeting will now be hosted fully virtual on Zoom. We have decided to cancel the in person attendance due to low registration for that option. 

Mark your calendars! Our 2024 Winter Gathering will be held on Saturday, March 9th from 9:30am to noon. We are offering two ways to attend this year: in person at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum or virtually via Zoom!

Join us for our annual chance to meet and greet with other monitors, see how the program is going, and learn more about how our data are being used. This year’s guest speaker is Leslie Ries, assistant professor at Georgetown University who is currently doing a rotation at the National Science Foundation. Leslie was instrumental in setting up PollardBase and continues to be active in overseeing the national database. She will be talking about how are data are being used, including presenting information about an upcoming scientific paper that uses IBMN data.

Register for the event here.

The 31st annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, February 26th, virtually on Zoom. The keynote speaker this year is Anna Walker, Species Survival Officer for Invertebrate Pollinators at the Albuquerque BioPark. Her talk is titled The Power of Community Science Data: An Important Tool for Species Conservation.

For more details visit the Upcoming Events page.

This year’s list of training workshops has been posted. Anyone looking to become a butterfly monitor must attend a beginning training session. All sessions this year are held virtually through zoom. Please check out the upcoming events page for more details.

The 29th annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, March 7th, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. The keynote speaker this year is Marianna Trevino-Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas. Her talk is titled The Beauty & Bounty of Butterflies on the Border.

For more details visit the Upcoming Events page.

The 28th annual IBMN workshop will take place Saturday, March 9th, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. The keynote speaker this year is Tom Velat, Ecology Coordinator at the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. His talk is titled Baltimore Checkerpsots Are Remarkable! A Detailed Look at the Population Demographics and Management of an Iconic Butterfly in DuPage County, Illinois.

For more details visit the Upcoming Events page.

There are three sessions remaining. If you would like to get started as a butterfly monitor for the 2018 field season you still have plenty of time to get involved! Two sessions are to be held in Cook County with the final session for the season in DuPage County on May 5th. Deadline to register for the final session is Friday, April 27th. Please check out the training workshops page for more details.

Thank you,

Allen

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The 2018 Annual Winter Workshop will be held on Saturday, March 10th at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. For more details visit the Upcoming Events page.