🐛 Our Urban Insects - Help us help them in 2020 (Webinar)

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A reminder about our coming webinar:  What kind of insects we have around in our cities, and how to help them this year. Join us. Register today! 

It's in the news: our insects are the silent victims of both the climate and the ecological crises. Also revealed this past year is how their decline badly affects Earth's ecosystems and the species that depend upon them (including humans). Come see what volunteer citizen scientists saw, discovered, and recorded in our cities this past year. Because insects are understudied, this also means that there is a ton that we can do to help. The good news is that you can really make a difference (yes, you!). Our growing community of citizen scientists and volunteers demonstrate this continuously and we are continuing the program this year. Join us and learn how you can help.

Speaker Bios: 

Claire O'Neill is the founder of Earthwise Aware (EwA), a nature conservation nonprofit organization based in Somerville. She is a field naturalist, wildlife conservationist, statistician, and data expert. Her and EwA's mission is to bring biodiversity science, ecological ethics, and environmental leadership to the heart of communities and into the daily life of people. 

She has developed a citizen science model that enables science by the people, benefiting both people and nature. Where she lives in Massachusetts, her communities get a chance to experience what this means first-hand with EwA's Naturalist program. EwA citizen science projects promote a form of scientific contribution and experiential learning that is system-based, with an emphasis on the interaction between species, habitats, and their function in several critical urban locations. [More...]

Amy Mertl is an Assistant professor at Lesley University. Amy has long been fascinated by the underlying patterns structuring the evolution and ecology of diverse insect groups. At Lesley, she teaches Biology with Lab, Animal Behavior, and Ecology and Natural History. 

Her current research involves investigating the diversity, ecology and structure of ant and termite communities in New England forests. This project currently engages Lesley students and community members in citizen science projects. Amy also has a background in using film and video as educational tools. She has co-produced several short documentaries through Project Documentary at CCTV, including “Ants” an award-winning short film on her favorite tiny subjects.  [More...]

🎟️ Registration details » https://ewa-urban-insects-spring2020-webinar.eventbrite.com

✉ Question? Contact Claire at citizen...@earthwiseaware.org
ⓘ About EwA Citizen Science Program » https://tinyurl.com/ewa-citizen-science
$ Free with a value: This event is free, still we need your support. 
🧡 Become an EwA #ScienceForAll Ambassador » Donate at www.earthwiseaware.org/donate

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A reminder that Amy Mertl (entomologist from Lesley) and I (Claire from Earthwise Aware) will give a public talk this Thursday at 6pm about our Urban Insects - our studies, our public science outreach and volunteer work and our plans including in Somerville for this year. Join Us!  🎟️ Registration details » https://ewa-urban-insects-spring2020-webinar.eventbrite.com

- Claire & Amy

✉ Question? Contact Claire at citizenscience@earthwiseaware.org