Robert Fernau, Ph.D., Ecological Biogeographer, has been conducting fieldwork in the Marble Mountain Wilderness since 1984. In this talk he’ll introduce why he chose butterflies and plants as a model system for studying biodiversity. He will explain how he came to study their environmental interactions within the Marble Mountain Wilderness.

He will bring a set of insect display cases which he has arranged for exhibiting biological traits of the 109 species of butterflies he has been studying. And he will give a PowerPoint talk with lots of photos to introduce his forty-year ecological case study of the remarkable Marble Mountain Wilderness. 

Donations a appreciated at this free event.

Talks take place in the NHM Classroom (just behind the main museum).