Program Description:
National Moth Week is a global-scale community science project celebrating the importance and beauty of moths and other nocturnal biodiversity. This program highlights the essential roles moths play in ecosystems as pollinators, links in food webs, and decomposers as well as their importance to humans. Learn about conservation threats to moths in urban environments and how to attract them for close observation as well as how and where to participate in and contribute data to the National Moth Week project.
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87889755031?pwd=K2VMZ2x3aitjdHAySWwvNjZabDEzZz09
Bio:
Elena Tartaglia is a co-founder of National Moth Week and a professor of Biology at Bergen Community College in NJ. Elena earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and has worked in science outreach and environmental education since 2005. She is an expert on moths of the family Sphingidae, having studied various aspects of their ecology and behavior. Her current research focuses on long-term ecological change and plant invasions in urban ecosystems.
