Sandy Creek Nature Center is a gateway to outdoor exploration, featuring 225 acres of woodlands and wetlands. Discover Life is partnering with Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services and the University of Georgia to build a biodiversity observation site at Sandy Creek. As we outline in the proposals below, our goals are to teach science and empower our local community to generate the knowledge that society needs to understand and solve pressing environmental issues. In April, 2013, we launched a permanent mothing site at the Walker Center to document using photography the nightly flight activity of over 950 local moth species. Please join us in this effort.

Proposals

• Proposal to National Wildlife Federation -- March, 2013
• Vision for a Biodiversity Observation Network -- February, 2013

Results Mothing at Sandy Creek Fig. 1. Species accumulated and per night Table 1. Monthly summary Table 2. Moth species Customized identification guides Moths

Photograph by Tori Staples Clay Pit Pond from Walker Center Sandy Creek Nature Center

Albums of site participants Prybol, Cameron -- [edit] Staples, Tori -- [edit] More information Contacts [Google Doc] Announcement Launch Party Photograph by Cameron Prybol Phyllodesma occidentis (Walker, 1855) Southern Lappet Moth Contacts Tori Staples, Project Manager, Discover Life -- vls91@uga.edu -- 678-343-1201 Nancy Lowe, Outreach Coordinator, Discover Life -- nancy@discoverlife.org -- 404-272-4526

Updated: 1 May, 2013

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