<div dir="ltr"><br>Hi students,<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to share this again with a message from Samantha Young, the coordinator. She let me know that they are in need of people with a bit of training in biology to help out as hike and survey leaders because there is so much public interest in the event. Unfortunately, I can't join due to a prior commitment, but I wanted to pass this along in case anyone would like to serve as a survey/hike leader. I'd be happy to cover travel costs from my endowed chair fund if there are a few of you who would like to carpool to the event. You can also book a stay at the <a href="https://ucnrs.org/reserves/steeleburnand-anza-borrego-desert-research-center/">Steel Burnand Research Center</a> if you need lodging. If you are interested please email Samantha Young <<a href="mailto:samantha@theabf.org">samantha@theabf.org</a>> with me cc'd.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Kerry</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Samantha Young</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:samantha@theabf.org">samantha@theabf.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM<br>Subject: Anza-Borrego BioBlitz<br>To: <br>Cc: Stacy Valdez <<a href="mailto:stacy@theabf.org">stacy@theabf.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-2090242109227432165">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this message finds you well!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anza-Borrego Foundation and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park are hosting a BioBlitz
<b>Friday, April 26th and Saturday, April 27th</b>, as part of the global <a href="https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/" target="_blank">
City Nature Challenge</a> and in celebration of Earth Day. Our State Environmental Scientist from the Colorado Desert District will be leading each taxon group effort. This is the first time we’ve organized something to this extent and want to involve as many
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’d like to invite you to be involved in whatever capacity you’re interested – we’d love to have scientist/amateur experts on various taxa help out in surveying species. We plan to have groups covering Plants, Bats, Birds, Amphibians,
Reptiles, and Arthropods, and Snails (pending good conditions). If you’re interested, please reply to this email with the taxa you’re interested in supporting and I can share additional details.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, we’re looking for sponsors for this event! We would love any connections or suggestions to organizations that might be interested in sponsoring and getting their name out to our approximately 90,000 constituents from combined e-newsletter,
social media, and monthly website views. I’ve attached a formal sponsorship letter that you’re welcome to share.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any insight! <a href="https://theabf.org/events/anza-borrego-desert-bioblitz/" target="_blank">
Here’s the registration page</a> for the public to participate - we’d love it if you could share this far and wide. It will be the event of the spring!<u></u><u></u></p>
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</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Dr. Kerry Mauck</b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Associate Professor & A.M. Boyce Endowed Chair in Entomology</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">163 Entomology Building</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of Entomology</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University of California, Riverside<br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Riverside, CA 92521</font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: she/her</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Office: Entomology 324</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Lab: Entomology 320<br>Riverside, CA 92521</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Phone: 302-242-7948</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Email: <a href="mailto:kerry.mauck@ucr.edu" target="_blank">kerry.mauck@ucr.edu</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wt9IkqgAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://maucklab.ucr.edu/" target="_blank">https://maucklab.ucr.edu/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:small">UCR occupies the ancestral lands of the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on these homelands.</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>