Save the date BOMBUSS 2.0 Meeting Oct 16-18, 2019, York University, Toronto, ON
Sheila Colla
The Building Our Methods By Using Sound Science (BOMBUSS) 2.0 meeting will be co-hosted by York University (Sheila Colla) and Wildlife Preservation Canada (Genevieve Rowe) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 16-18 October 2019. The meeting is also being organized by researchers from USDA-ARS, University of California- Davis, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, University of Minnesota, the USFWS, St. Louis Zoo, the Natural History Museum, UK and University of California-Riverside. Participation is limited to 100 attendees to foster an environment of collaboration and discussion. We have not yet begun registration or finalized the schedule.You can find more information as it becomes available here: https://wildlifepreservation.ca/about-bombuss/
The BOMBUSS meetings bring together bumble bee researchers from around the world to discuss and share current knowledge and address gaps with the focus on discussing and developing methodology. The theme of this year’s meeting is Next Steps in North American Bumble Bee Monitoring and Conservation. Scientific and public interest in bumble bees has increased greatly due to these animals being used as managed pollinators, being objects of conservation concern, and model organisms for research. However, as interest grows, knowledge gaps and disparate techniques among research groups are becoming more apparent in our field. The goals of the BOMBUSS meetings are to discuss and develop sound methodological approaches and maximize productivity in the fields of bumble bee research and conservation. This three-day meeting will address major themes such as species assessments, long term monitoring, bee tracking, captive breeding, physiology, pathogens, population biology and landscape ecology. Each topical session will be headed by experts in the field, and will include presentations from participants, discussion panels, and hands-on workshops. We anticipate that BOMBUSS will yield increased collaboration among bumble bee researchers, more refined methodological approaches, and clarification of pressing research questions
Pham Hong Thai
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