Dear colleagues, I'm organizing the second annual Macaulay Honors College BioBlitz that is taking place at the New York Botanical Garden on September 6th and 7th. Our BioBlitz teams up our 500 sophomores with scientists and other people who have expertise with local species for a celebration of urban biodiversity and an experience with ecological data collection. Last year's BioBlitz in Central Park was a transformational educational experience for our students and we hope to replicate that this year.
We have some taxonomic gaps that we'd like to fill with local scientists or others who know the local flora and fauna. As a team leader, you would be responsible for taking a small team of eager students and finding as many species as you can in a particular taxonomic group. We are in need of people who know the local mosses and ferns, fish, mollusks, and lichens. The Garden's experts for these groups are unavailable, so I thought I'd turn the question to the ecolog community. Would anyone who is in the NYC area and knows these organisms like to be our taxon leaders for these groups? If you are interested, let me know and I can provide more information. Thanks! Kelly Kelly L. O'Donnell, Ph.D. Director, Science Forward Macaulay Honors College
