| APRIL 25, 2015 -- The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) announced today that a Lockwood Lecture by Sam Droege from the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geologic Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, Laurel, MD will be held on April 29, 2015 in the Jones Auditorium at the Station’s main campus at 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CT. He will be speaking on The Natural History Gap and the Citizen: A practical guide to what works and what does not in Citizen Science projects. Tea is at 10:30 a.m. and the presentation is at 11:00 a.m. The public is invited.
Sam Droege is world-renowned for his work with monitoring and the conservation of native bees and other insects, birds, and amphibians. Sam Droege grew up in Hyattsville, received an undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland and a Master’s at the State University of New York – Syracuse. Most of his career has been spent at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He has coordinated the North American Breeding Bird Survey Program, developed the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, the Bioblitz, Cricket Crawl, and Frogwatch USA programs and worked on the design and evaluation of monitoring programs. Currently he is developing an inventory and monitoring program for native bees, online identification guides for North American bees at www.discoverlife.org, and with Jessica Zelt reviving the North American Bird Phenology Program. |
