BUGLIFE: Saving the small things that run the planet

Tue, May 18th 2021 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Guest Speaker Dr Catherine M. Jones, Pollinator Officer, Buglife

Dr Catherine M. Jones, Pollinator Officer, Buglife .

Catherine has worked for Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust – since 2017 when she joined to deliver the Urban Buzz Project in Leeds. She moved to her current role of Pollinator Officer in April 2019 and represents Buglife at Defra’s Pollinator Advisory Steering Group, at the Wildlife and Countryside Link – Agriculture group, at the Farm Wildlife partnership and at Nature Friendly Farming Network advisory partners meetings.

Catherine was awarded a PhD by Royal Holloway, University of London in 2013, for her work on bumblebees. Following a move to Yorkshire, Catherine worked at the University of Leeds on the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) National Pollinator and Pollination Monitoring Framework (NPPMF) project developing the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS).

Catherine is fascinated by the natural world, particularly insects, and contributes to a number of citizen science projects including CEH’s UK PoMS flower-insect timed (FIT) counts and 1km square surveys.

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