Discover Life -- working together to monitor species,
answer ecological questions, teach science, and enjoy nature.

Dr. Pickering will speak about Discover Life (www.discoverlife.org).
This website provides tools to identify species and study nature.
In October Discover Life celebrated a billion hits and launched the
Georgia Natural History Survey.  The survey's goals are to (1) collect
data to address the impacts of weather, invasive species, pollution
and other large-scale factors on species and their interactions;
(2) teach science and quantitative methods through inquiry-based
learning, and (3) provide timely information to gardeners, farmers, and
land managers.  He is recruiting naturalists, teachers, scientists,
and others to inventory and monitor sites in New England using digital
photography and hopes that we too will start a natural history survey.
His talk will focus on moths, wildflowers, bees, and lichens.
To learn more, see www.discoverlife.org/gnhs or contact Outreach
Coordinator Nancy Lowe at nancy@discoverlife.org or 404-272-4526.

Pickering's CV and contact info are at
www.discoverlife.org/who/Pickering,_John.html