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Alfonso Alonso


Dr. Alfonso Alonso is a conservation biologist who has worked for the Smithsonian for 20 years. He is very interested in determining how species of plants and animals are distributed in different ecosystems, as well as the implementation of monitoring programs to ensure their persistence...

Don Davis


Don Davis has participated in numerous monarch-related conservation, educational, and scientific projects and initiatives, starting in1967 when he tagged monarchs with Dr. Fred Urquhart’s Insect Migration Association. Don has had a lifelong interest in natural history, while his career was focused for 40 years on child welfare and protection in Ontario...

Ek del Val de Gortari

Ek del Val is research professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her main interest is to understand the relationships between plants and insects and to use this information for conservation and restoration programs. She considers it essential to promote science outreach programs to involve society in the conservation of nature.

Liz Goehring

Liz Goehring is an ecologist, educator, and program developer with experience working in corporate, academic, and public education settings. She began her career as a systems analyst with IBM before following her passion for the natural world and retooling in ecology and science education. Her research focused on monarch reproduction and understanding environmental factors involved in reproductive diapause and postdiapause development...

Eli Moreno


Eli Moreno has worked with community based non-profits for the last 20 years and is committed to the improvement of science education and the protection of the environment in the developing world. He has also been involved with several humanitarian relief efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters in third world countries...

Gail Morris


Gail Morris is the Coordinator of the Southwest Monarch Study, a Citizen Science research project, based in Arizona and the Vice President of the Central Arizona Butterfly Association. She has been active in monarch conservation and training Citizen Scientists around the Southwest United States since 2006.

M. Isabel Ramirez


M. Isabel Ramirez is Research-Professor at the Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM). She is especially interested in the topics of landscape ecology. She has published work on vegetation dynamics, microclimatology…

Karen
Oberhauser


Karen Oberhauser is the Director of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Before coming to Madison, she and her students at the University of Minnesota conducted research on several aspects of monarch butterfly ecology...

Ernest Williams


Ernest Williams is Professor of Biology Emeritus at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. As a butterfly ecologist for more than 40 years, he has studied the population biology and conservation of monarchs at their Mexican overwintering colonies...

Chip Taylor, Emeritus


Chip Taylor Orley R. “Chip” Taylor, Founder and Director of Monarch Watch; Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Trained as an insect ecologist, Chip Taylor has published papers on species assemblages, hybridization, reproductive…

Mónica Missrie


Mónica Missrie is a conservation biologist and has worked for monarch conservation for more than 25 years. She was involved in the expansion of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico in 2001 and the creation of the Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund which offered incentives to the local communities affected by the establishment of the protected area…

Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero


Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero is a forest geneticist professor-researcher at Michoacan’s University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, in Morelia, Michoacán. His research in recent years has focused on developing reforestation methods with oyamel (Abies religiosa) considering climate change, including using assisted migration: reforesting with plant originating from seed collected from a site with a climate similar to the climate projected in the future for the site to be reforested.

Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup


Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup is a plant ecologist who works at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research at the National Autonomous University of México. He is interested in applying findings from Plant Ecology to inform conservation, management and restoration practices in forests. He has been studying fires and their impacts in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.

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