Join Environmental Science and Management for a winter seminar series on pollinators. Dr. Bob Pyle, author and founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, kicks off our series. His talk is titled, "Pollinators, Plants, and People on the Edge of What's Left." Due to the weather, this week's talk will only be offered on Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89763617912
Dr. Robert Michael Pyle has spent his whole life among butterflies and other pollinators. Brought up in Colorado, he studied natural history and conservation at the University of Washington and took his PhD in butterfly conservation ecology at Yale University. He worked for the government of Papua New Guinea on Giant Birdwing Butterfly conservation, and for The Nature Conservancy as Northwest Land Steward. In 1971, as a Fulbright Scholar in England, he founded the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, now a nationwide concern based in Portland and the largest pollinator protection team in the world. An independent scholar, biologist, and writer for forty years, he has published 28 books of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. These include a flight of standard butterfly books such as Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road, the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, and The Butterflies of Cascadia. Residing on a rural tributary of the Lower Columbia River, Bob continues to study the butterflies, bees, and waterbears of the Willapa Hills and beyond.
This series is supported by a generous donation from alum Steve Wille.