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.

Program Title Name Time Duration
FRIDAY NIGHT
Moth Night Tanya Dapkey/Invertebrate Team 8pm-10pm FRIDAY 2 hours
Bat Night Acoustic Monitoring Joseph Schell 8:45pm -10pm FRIDAY 2 hours
SATURDAY FROM 10 am to 4 pm
Acoustic music Dave and Farmers Daughters 10:00 -12:00 2 hours
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
Nature Journaling Tabassam Shah 10:00 am -11:30 1.5 hours
Learn about mushrooms Walk Nathaniel Whitmore 10:00-12:00 2hour
Kids self guided scavenger hunt Kathleen Christie 10:00 am-4:00 pm 6 hours
Foraging Walk Laura Silverman 11:00 am -12:30 pm 1.5 hours
Snakes, salamander, frog Herp Walk Andy Weber 11:00am to 12:00 pm 1 hour
Singer Songwriter Janet Burgan 12:00 -1:00 pm 1 hour
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
The Art of Awareness: Walking with Lens and Pen Sandy Long 2:00 PM 1 hour
Pictures Moved by Strings John Bromberg 2:00 PM 20 minutes
Native Plant Walk Sarah Chamberlain 2:00-3:00 1 hour
Mammal Talk Joseph Schell TBA 20 minutes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule of Programs

Keep tabs on the BioBlitz Facebook page for information on 2024 BioBlitz programs, workshops and walks. They will be listed here as we finalize the schedule.