[BSW] All-taxa Biodiversity Inventory: Finding New Species near the Nation's Capital, a Talk by Brent Steury

[Kathy Bilton]

Below the BSW info is an announcement from VNPS about an upcoming talk.

The next BSW meeting will be on March 7th, 7 P.M.
Speaker: Steven Lonker, PhD
Topic: The Persian Garden: 2,500 Years of Producing Earthly Paradise in
Extreme Climate Through Innovations in Sustainable Landscape Design

When a flier is available, a link to it will be sent out.
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The Potowmack Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society invites you to:

The George Washington Memorial Parkway

All-taxa Biodiversity Inventory:
Finding New Species near the Nation's Capital

A Talk by Brent Steury
Thursday, March 9, 2017
7:30 pm—9 pm

Green Spring Gardens
4603 Green Spring Rd
Alexandria, VA

VNPS programs are free and open to the public.

The lecture will summarize eleven years of biodiversity inventory efforts 
from a National Park near the Nation's Capital.  Highlights of these 
efforts include the documentation of 5,563 species:  including some that 
are new to the flora or fauna of Virginia, some new to the District of 
Columbia, new to North America, some new to science, some state listed for 
rarity, several federally threatened species, and 58 peer-reviewed journal 
articles published in the last 11 years.

Brent Steury is a Natural Resources Program Manager for the National Park 
Service, where he has worked for 20 years. For the past eleven years he 
has overseen the all-taxa biodiversity inventory for the George Washington 
Memorial Parkway, a unit of the National Park Service in Virginia, 
Maryland, and the District of Columbia. During his NPS career he has 
authored 38 journal articles on subjects ranging from plants, to 
pollination biology, bees, beetles, and snails.  Prior to his NPS career 
he worked in National Parks in Guatemala and Bolivia.