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The list of events on this page will be updated regularly. To view past webinars, please visit our YouTube channel. We also announce events on social media and via our e-newsletter. If you have questions, please email [email protected].

Nov 18
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM MT
Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, Denver, CO 80206
Denver, CO

The 9th annual Colorado Pollinator Summit will gather Colorado’s pollinator conservation community for a day of learning, sharing, and networking. This year’s Summit—New Terrain for Pollinator Conservation—will include talks by keynote speaker Eric Lee-Mader on How to Eat for the Bees: The Next Stage in Pollinator Conservation Begins in Your Kitchen, presentations by elementary students on climate actions for pollinators, talks about habitat for biodiversity, and updates on community science projects increasing what we know about Colorado's pollinators.

Learn more and register today!

This event is hosted by the Colorado Pollinator Network (CPN) and is intended for policymakers, community members, land managers, teachers, artists, gardeners, and researchers. For questions, please contact [email protected].

This event will be recorded and available on the Colorado Pollinator Network YouTube channel.

Dec 5
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT / 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Zoom

Join Executive Director Scott Black as he explores the impactful work of the Xerces Society in 2024. From creating pollinator habitat and advocating for pesticide reduction to launching community science initiatives and educational programs, Xerces has achieved remarkable progress in invertebrate conservation.

This webinar will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar.

Learn more and register today!


Scott Black - Executive Director - Xerces Society

Jan 9
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT / 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Zoom

Monitoring is essential to our understanding of insects in the modern era, the Anthropocene, and monitoring comes in many different forms and serves different purposes. Join Matt Forister, professor in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, as he discusses working with North America's longest-running butterfly monitoring project across Northern California, and presents major findings with respect to the impacts of climate change and pesticides on butterfly populations. He will also talk about data from projects supported by community scientists, which are going to be of increasing importance in the coming years. Finally, Matt will discuss new efforts to organize information on species that appear to be lost, but, with effort from scientists and the public, might be found again.

This webinar will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar.

Learn more and register today!


Matt Forister is a professor of biology and insect ecology in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has studied butterflies and other insects in the western US for the last 20 years, and has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters on issues that include insects adapting to exotic plants and butterflies responding to a changing climate. One of the main concerns for Forister and his graduate students is the collection of data at sites in the Sierra Nevada that have been studied for almost 50 years, a project originally started by Art Shapiro of UC Davis.

Feb. 20
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT / 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
Zoom

Join Xerces Society Endangered Species Conservation Biologist and Monarch Overwintering Specialist, Ashley Fisher, to learn about radio-tracking monarchs. Radio-tracking is a new technology that answers long-held questions about the western monarch movement and habitat use. See this technology in action and how it will help conserve our precious western monarchs.

This webinar will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar.

Learn more and register here today!


Ashley Fisher - Endangered Species Conservation Biologist, Monarch Overwintering Specialist - Xerces Society