Senior Conservation Ecologist. Director, Conservation Tools Program @ Field Museum. Mother. Obsessed Gardener.
Chicago IL
Joined July 2013
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Our paper about creating resilient cities came out today! It's open access and intended to be a discussion piece, so please send your thoughts and questions our way! #UrbanNature frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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Read more about Loreto and why the people working to conserve it can be a model for protecting land sustainability in the 21st century. 🌎fieldmuseum.io/ConservingLor…
🧵📸: Álvaro del Campo
Call for Papers on Urban Resilience!! This is a super fun project that spans across time, space and disciplines. And the deadline for submitting a title is fast approaching- JUNE 18th. Please share widely, and reach out if you have any questions.
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Hear Field Senior Conservation Ecologist Abigail Derby Lewis on @WBEZreset today at 12:20pm talking about biodiversity trends in Chicago and how you can help pollinators. 🐝 wbez.org/reset
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Still the most under-reported ecological story in North America. Imagine taking a sixth of all remaining old-growth redwoods, complete with their endangered fauna, to build a road.
That is the analogy and those are the stakes.
Updates on the #SaveBellBowlPrairie updates!
The Federal Aviation Administration @FAANews confirmed Feb 16th that the airport STILL hasn't submitted a revised federal endangered species Biological Assessment. The document will eventually get submitted to the @USFWS for review.
Too often, birds flying through cities crash into glass buildings and die. This new case study provides the best evidence yet that turning off building lights can drastically reduce bird mortality. #fieldmuseum Great work @warblerchips !
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TOMORROW! 5/13 connect to the newly launched Planning for People & Pollinators Toolkit and Network #urbannature #monarchs #pollinators #FieldMuseum
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Nature is still open! Check out @FieldMuseum resources to help connect to nature while #SocialDistancing
New web site from @FieldMuseum with resources to help Chicagoans connect to nature while #SocialDistancing. Includes beginner's guide to spring nature, guides to some plant and bird groups, spiders, how-tos from gardening for nature, etc. Check it out!
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Monarch butterflies are dying out and researchers @FieldMuseum find Cities and city residents could grow 30 percent of the milkweed plants monarchs need to survive. Check out the coverage in @NatGeo tinyurl.com/y6ama27w
RT @MarshMaiden Does Nature need cities? Scientists @FieldMuseum say "yes." Increasing evidence points out that not only do cities need nature but that nature, and particularly Monarchs, need cities, too. Check it out frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Does Nature need cities? Scientists @FieldMuseum say "yes." Increasing evidence points out that not only do cities need nature but that nature, and particularly Monarchs, need cities, too. This newly ⬇️ published paper shows how frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Inspiring stories and storytellers Queen Quet & Cynthia Naha! #naf2019 #ClimateJustice #tellyourstory
Excellent break down on the numbers from @KHayhoe
Talking with @ducanada about monarchs! Check out the newest podcast 🐛
It may be winter but we've always got monarchs on our minds. @aderby4 talks about the flight and plight of these butterflies with @ducanada. ducanada.libsyn.com/the-mona…
Monarch butterflies surge in Chicago as they migrate. Why cities could be a key to saving them trib.in/2mcqCzn #ShowYourMilkweed @FieldMuseum
Best caption for this covert milkweed bug conversation? @FieldMuseum #ShowYourMilkweed Photo by @lexwinter
Week 3 monarch monitoring in front yard: 23 cats (0 eggs, 0 first instar, 10 second instar, 3 third instar, 10 fourth instar) @FieldMuseum #showyourmilkweed
A hungry Monarch caterpillar on whorled milkweed in the native garden right outside the Field Museum @FieldMuseum #showyourmilkweed
Pollinator garden in Crabtree Wildlife Refuge, Carbondale, IL. @FieldMuseum #ShowYourMilkweed
