Jade Anderson is a passionate naturalist who is interested in ecological restoration and conservation. She started as an ecological monitoring assistant at rare Charitable Research Reserve in 2022 focusing her efforts on butterfly monitoring. In 2023 she returned as the ecological monitoring intern to continue conducting monitoring surveys at rare.

With Jen Zaspel, Jon Bertolas is launching the Wisconsin Butterfly Monitoring Program in 2019.

Greg is a researcher who has worked extensively on both movement and climate ecology. He has used the Massachussets data to do an extensive analysis on the impacts of climate on the butterfly community. Greg used data extracted from the Massachussets list-serve, another potential wide-spread data source. He is currently a postdoc at the University of Alberta and was previously a postdoc at Harvard.

Julie has been the HMANA Monitoring Site Director since 2009. With a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine and a Master's degree in Conservation Biology from Antioch Graduate School in New Hampshire, Julie has studies raptors as well as other bird species and even a few mammals across the continent.

Kevin earned his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from UNR. In XXXX he and his wife, Cynthia founded Nevada Bugs and Butterflies in order to provides hands - on experiences with science and living things to cultivate love of the natural world and local environmental responsibility.

Phillip deMaynadier is a wildlife biologist for Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) where he leads the Reptile-Amphibian-Invertebrate Group. He has authored over 40 scientific publications, is active on several state and national wildlife technical committees, and serves on the Graduate Faculty at University of Maine’s Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology.

Ted co-coordinates butterfly surveys and volunteers for the Orange County Butterfly Monitoring Program.

Jeff is the president of the North American Butterfly Association, which he formed in 1992. Jeff has written several guide books for North American butterflies, including starting the "through binoculars" series that has revolutionized the way people learn about and experience butterflies and other insects in nature.

Shiran Hershcovich is the Lepidopterist Manager at Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, CO. She leads community science projects like the Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network (CBMN) and Butterfly Quest, a lepidopteran longevity study.

Michael Holy has had a lifelong interest in lepidoptera. He started his first butterfly collection at age 11 from specimens collected in a field near his suburban Buffalo, N.Y. home. After graduating from the University at Buffalo with a Biology degree, Mike taught middle school science for three years, first in Norfolk, Va., then Prince Georges Co, Md. He has taught a variety of Biology and Science courses at Hannibal High School, in upstate New York and earned a Masters Degree in Biology Education at SUNY Oswego. He chaired the Hannibal High School Science Department from 1997 until 2004 and retired after 30 years at Hannibal High. Mike Holy has had a long association with the Rice Creek Field Station. He taught basic entomology to youths in the Rice Creek Summer Program from 1985-87 and 1992, and in the Sheldon Institute for four years in the 1990s. For 11 years he was President of the Board of Directors of the Rice Creek Associates, a Field Station support group. Mike has been a member of the Lepidopterists’ Society since 1978 and the North American Butterfly Association since 2008. Since 1999 Mike has been monitoring butterflies, with SUNY Oswego Biology faculty and students, at the Rice Creek Biological Station.

Rebeca is a Texas Master Naturalist with the Guadalupe Chapter based in Schertz, Texas, and a co-coordinator for the Texas Butterfly Monitoring Network. She is active in leading monthly Nature Education programs for children ages 5 - 12 that meet the Texas education curriculum standards covering a wide range of topics regarding the natural world. In addition, she regularly participates in local citizen science projects that involve monitoring local water quality and tracking plants, insects and animals using iNaturalist.

Laura is the National Monitoring Coordinator for the Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program at Monarch Joint Venture.

Laura is a Program Manager where she assists with coordinating citizen science surveys of birds, butterflies, and other organisms in Virginia.

Steve is the Curator of Education and Citizen Science Coordinator at Knoxville Zoo. He is working to set up a new butterfly monitoring network in Tennessee - and perhaps coordinate with groups in the Carolinas for a larger monitoring network in the Southeast. Steve is also coordinating our effort to catalog and standardize our protocols, develop materials for new programs, and is a member of our steering committee.

Wallace M. Meyer III (Marty) is Director of PRISSM – the Partnership of Regional Institutions for Sage Scrub Monitoring, which in addition to butterflies, includes monitoring of plants, birds, other vertebrates, and weather. Marty is also Director of the Claremont Colleges’ Bernard Biological Field Station and Assistant Professor of Biology at Pomona College. Marty’s research explores the fields of conservation biology, invasion biology, biogeography and ecology, including aspects of population, community and ecosystem ecology. Currently his work is focused on understanding how and why the species composition of local biotas are changing and how such changes directly and indirectly affect ecosystem-level processes and properties, as well as preservation and restoration of sage scrub ecosystems.

Lea Morgan is curator of invertebrates and manager the Butterfly Garden at The Museum of Science in Boston. Lea is launching a new butterfly monitoring program that will focus on the Massachusetts/Connecticut/Rhode Island area of New England.

Thomas is the technology coordinator for Butterflies and Moths of North America. He is also on our steering committee and is developing the new data entry portal system for the regional Pollard programs that are part of this network.

Jeff is a former faculty member at Duke University where he conducted research on forest ecology and climate change; taught courses in ecology, forestry, and wildlife surveys; and coordinated and conducted bird, herp, and butterfly surveys across North Carolina. He moved to Montana in 2014 and spent 3 years establishing the MPG Ranch butterfly monitoring program near Missoula, until moving back to North Carolina by 2017. He is currently a Research Specialist at Georgetown University working with Leslie Ries in the Butterfly Informatics Lab, coordinating and supporting butterfly monitoring programs across the continent through PollardBase and The North American Butterfly Monitoring Network. In 2023, Jeff launched the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program, a community science effort to monitor butterfly populations across both North and South Carolina.

Eduardo has worked in the Monarch sanctuary region of Mexico since the 1990s and he leads the WWF Monarch program in Mexico. He was a graduate student of Dr. Lincoln Brower.

Leslie is the Project Director of the North American Butterfly Monitoring Network. Leslie's background is in butterfly ecology and her interests are in using butterfly data to understand how ecological communities respond to climate and land-use change. Leslie's quest to start using butterfly data from monitoring programs in large-scale analyses is how she started coordinating efforts between the different groups.

Rick is one of the founders of the Ohio monitoring program. He developed the database used to manage the Ohio Lepidopterists data.

Along with Kevin Burls, Cynthia co-founded Nevada Bugs & Butterflies. Cynthia is a lifetime Nevadan, native to Reno and earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her Master’s research looked at interactions between Melissa Blues, the parasitoids that attack it, and the ants that defend it. Exploring the wild lands of Nevada for butterflies and other bugs is one of her favorite activities!

Art Shapiro has been monitoring butterfly populations across central California for more than 35 years. His is the longest-running butterfly monitoring program in existence and the only one where ALL of the surveys have been done by the same person. This is especially astounding considering that Arthur doesn't own a car.

Ronda has worked at the Kalamazoo Nature Center since 2014 and became the Coordinator of the Michigan Butterfly Network in 2018.

Sharon is a former officer and lead coordinator of the Massachusetts Butterfly Club's presence on The North American Butterfly Network. She maintained the Butterflies of Massachusetts website where she compiled reports from list-serves and field trips in Massachusetts and authored various papers on Massachusetts butterfly distributions.

Ann & Scott Swengel are independent scientists interested in butterflies, birds, plants, conservation, and many aspects of ecology. They started surveying butterflies in Wisconsin in 1986. Since then, they've conducted thousands of surveys at hundreds of sites across several states including Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri.

Doug is the lead of the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network and is also the national coordinator of the transect-based "Pollard" programs that are part of this network. Doug has been instrumental in helping many of the new transect programs get off the ground and is on our steering committee.

Anna Walker coordinates the New Mexico Butterfly Monitoring Program. She is also a Species Survival Officer for Invertebrate Pollinators at the New Mexico BioPark Society. Through this unique conservation program, she works in partnership with the IUCN Species Survival Commission and expert entomologists from across the country to assess the conservation status of insect species, including moths and butterflies. Insect species assessments can be found on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Jerry is currently the lead organizer of the Ohio Lepidopterists Butterfly Monitoring Network. This is the second oldest pollard-based network in North America.

Elise is the Butterfly Coordinator for the Gardens on Spring Creek Butterfly House in Fort Collins, CO, which is operated in partnership with Butterfly Pavilion (Westminster, CO). She assumed leadership of the Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network in 2021, following a new-found passion for volunteer-based community science that just so happened - and continues - to align with her love for the outdoors, butterflies, and conservation.

Tad is an entomologist at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Butterfly House in St. Louis where he coordinates the Missouri Butterfly Monitoring Network.