MIWP Annual Meeting and Evening Reception — Professor Karen S. Oberhauser: Monarch Butterfly Conservation in a Changing World
Saturday, May 24th
Reception: 6:00pm, hearty appetizers and wine
Program: 7:30pm
Location: Madeline Island School of Arts
Cost: $35.00/person
RSVP on our website www.miwp.org
Deadline: Friday, May 16th, or 100-person limit
Professor Karen S. Oberhauser, Director (retired) UW-Madison Arboretum and her students have conducted research on Monarch Butterfly ecology for almost 40 years. She is passionate about the conservation of the world’s biodiversity and building connections between humans and the natural world.
Karen Oberhauser recently retired as the Director of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Before coming to Madison, she and her students at the University of Minnesota conducted research on several aspects of monarch butterfly ecology, and she is now getting back into spending more time focused on monarch conservation and citizen science. Her strong interest in promoting a citizenry with a high degree of scientific and environmental literacy led to the development of a science education program that involved courses for teachers, and opportunities for youth to engage in research and share their findings with broad audiences. In 1996, she and graduate student Michelle Prysby started a nationwide Citizen Science project called the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project, which continues to engage hundreds of volunteers throughout North America.
