Program
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8.05 - 8.25
Robert M. Pyle, Grays River, Washington.
"Chasing western Monarchs: New views on migration routes"

8.25 - 8.45
Kingston Leong, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.
"Development of protocols for long term habitat management of overwintering Monarch butterfly sites in California"

8.45 - 9.05
Dennis Frey and Shawna Stevens, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.
"Project Monarch Alert: Studies of population dynamics in western North America"

9.05 - 9.25
Shawna Stevens, Biological Sciences Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.
"Using climate patterns to study the local recruitment hypothesis"

9.25 - 9.40
Nelli Thorngate and Jessica Griffiths, Big Sur Ornithology Laboratory, Ventana Wilderness Society, Monterey, California.
"Patterns of habitat use by overwintering Monarch butterflies in Monterey County, California"

9.40 - 10.00
Orley R. 'Chip' Taylor, Monarch Watch, Entomology Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
"Monarch tagging: What tag recoveries tell us about the migration"

10.15 - 10.30
Andrew K. Davis, Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
"New perspectives on migration in monarch butterflies: Insights from long-term monitoring and citizen science"

10.30 - 10.50
Lincoln P. Brower, Linda S. Fink, Daniel E. Slayback, David Perault, Department of Biology, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
"Deterioration of the prime overwintering habitat in the Monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in Mexico"

10.50 - 11.05
Daniel Slayback, Isabel Ramirez, Lincoln P. Brower, David Perault, Linda S. Fink. Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Biospheric Sciences Branch, Code 923, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
"A remote-sensing overview of forest cover change in the monarch butterfly overwintering region in Mexico"

11.05 - 11.20
Stuart Weiss, Creekside Center for Earth Observations, Menlo Park, California.
"Designing the forest with the trees: Quantitative assessment of forest structure for overwintering monarch butterflies"

11.20 - 11.40
Sonia M. Altizer, Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
"Monarch butterflies in changing environments: Parasites, migration and phenotypic variation"

11.40-12.00
Karen S. Oberhauser, R. Batalden and A.T. Petersen, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota.
"Potential effects of climate change on eastern North American monarch butterfly populations"