MPF Webinar: Monarch Conservation: Opportunities and Challenges

Опубликовано: 17 Июнь 2025
на канале: Missouri Prairie

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In this presentation, join Dr. Kristen Baum to learn about the current status of the monarch butterfly, including opportunities, challenges, and ways to contribute to monarch conservation. Also learn about Monarch Watch, which is an education, conservation, and research organization at the University of Kansas that supports local, national, and international efforts to conserve monarchs.

Dr. Kristen Baum is the Director of Monarch Watch, Senior Scientist with Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, and Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

Prior to assuming the role of Monarch Watch Director in 2023, Baum was a professor in the Dept. of Integrative Biology and associate dean for research at the College of Arts and Sciences at Oklahoma State University.

Baum has worked with monarchs and other pollinators in the Great Plains for more than 25 years. Her monarch research focuses on the effects of land use and management practices on the distribution and abundance of monarchs, milkweeds, and monarch-parasite interactions. She also has a long-term project focusing on the wing size, body weight, sex ratio, and OE infection status of fall migrants in Oklahoma. Baum has served on numerous state, regional and national working groups to support conservation efforts for monarchs and other pollinators.

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘺 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦

Learn more at moprairie.org

This webinar was recorded live on August 14, 2024.