Public Events
Friday night, June 28th from 8 to 10 PM there will
be two special pop-up events open to the public. The Invertebrate team
will be setting up sheets illuminated by special lights that are
expected to attract thousands of moths and other night-flying insects. The Mammal team will
demonstrate acoustic monitoring of bats where the softward can identify
bats to the species level through the sounds they make that we can't
hear.
Saturday, June 29th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm the
public is invited to the BioBlitz site to meet the scientists and
amateur naturalists, see what they have collected, and learn how they do
field work.
On Saturday we will have theater and music
performances, arts and crafts workshops, and forays to collect
mushrooms, see birds, and identify plants and insects. These will be fun
for the whole family.
Here's the current schedule but check back on Facebook and Instagram
for last minute changes.
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Program Title |
Name |
Time |
Duration |
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FRIDAY NIGHT |
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Moth Night |
Tanya Dapkey/Invertebrate Team |
8pm-10pm FRIDAY |
2 hours |
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Bat Night Acoustic Monitoring |
Joseph Schell |
8:45pm -10pm FRIDAY |
2 hours |
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SATURDAY FROM 10 am to 4 pm |
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Acoustic music |
Dave and Farmers Daughters |
10:00 -12:00 |
2 hours |
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Bird ID Walk |
Jim McCoy |
10-11 am |
1 hour |
|
Boyds Mills Property Forest Management Practices |
George Brown |
10:00-10:30 |
1/2 hour |
|
Moss and ferns walk |
Susan Munch |
10:00-12:00 |
2 hours |
|
Native planting/tree giveaways |
Keenan Gruver |
10 am - 4pm |
All day |
|
Junior Rangers Activities |
Corrine Hinton |
10 am to 4 pm |
All day |
|
Caddisfly Craft |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
10 am to 4 pm |
All day |
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Nature Journaling |
Tabassam Shah |
10:00 am -11:30 |
1.5 hours |
|
Learn about mushrooms Walk |
Nathaniel Whitmore |
10:00-12:00 |
2hour |
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Kids self guided scavenger hunt |
Kathleen Christie |
10:00 am-4:00 pm |
6 hours |
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Foraging Walk |
Laura Silverman |
11:00 am -12:30 pm |
1.5 hours |
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Snakes, salamander, frog Herp Walk |
Andy Weber |
11:00am to 12:00 pm |
1 hour |
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Singer Songwriter |
Janet Burgan |
12:00 -1:00 pm |
1 hour |
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Mushroom ID Walk |
Dave Wasilewski |
12:00 - 1:00 pm |
1 hour |
|
Aquatic Macroinvertebrate sampling demo |
Tanya Dapkey |
12pm to 1pm |
1 hour |
|
Alice in Scienceland |
Farm Arts Collective |
1:00 PM |
1 hour |
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The Art of Awareness: Walking with Lens and Pen |
Sandy Long |
2:00 PM |
1 hour |
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Pictures Moved by Strings |
John Bromberg |
2:00 PM |
20 minutes |
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Native Plant Walk |
Sarah Chamberlain |
2:00-3:00 |
1 hour |
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Mammal Talk |
Joseph Schell |
TBA |
20 minutes |