Meeting October 17 - "Vanishing Tigers" - CAES

Our October CES meeting will be held this Friday, October 17th - with Kyle Rossner as our speaker!

Guests are always welcome - we are especially trying to encourage more student members to attend, so please bring along anyone who you think may be interested! This talk will be a research/outreach type of talk, appropriate for all audiences.

DATE: Friday, October 17

LOCATION: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Jones Auditorium, 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CT

TIME: 6:30 start for social hour, 7:30 meeting start

FOOD: Pizza and drinks will be provided

ZOOM: a zoom link will be sent along before the meeting

Presentation details:

Title: “Vanishing Tigers: Polychromatic predators in peril”

Summary: This talk is focused on the inordinate extinction risks faced by tiger beetles due to a multitude of environmental changes and habitat losses.

Speaker: Kyle is a graduate student in the Wagner Lab at the University of Connecticut where his work focuses on the evolutionary ecology of tiger beetles and their role as a flagship lineage for global insect conservation. Kyle’s work with insects has branched across diverse taxa and applications, but always seems to fall back toward tiger beetles. He is part of the international Tiger Beetle Specialist Group for the IUCN and an active member of the Connecticut Entomological Society.