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We were heartbroken to learn of the sudden passing, in early March of Raul Ferreira, whom many of us knew as "the beetle guy" from BioBlitz, one of the nicest, most interesting people we've ever had the pleasure to meet. In addition to advancing his many beetle research projects, he had been energetically making plans to boost the insect teams (especially the beetle team) at the RI BioBlitz. You can read his obituary here. We have worked with his family to establish the Rosa and Raul Ferreira Young Entomologists Fellowship Fund at the Survey that will annually provide a fellowship to a 6th-12th grader to boost the insect team at BioBlitz and further their progress toward a career in entomology. Read more about the Ferreira fund here. You can contribute to the Ferreira Fellowship Fund now using the DONATE button and indicating your purpose in the notes or by sending us a check with "Ferreira Fund" in the memo.
To celebrate our 30th birthday and start our 4th decade strong, the Survey's new Strategic Plan 2025-2030 is now ready. You can download it here.
Do you love what the Survey does for community based environmental science for Rhode Island? You're not a "big donor" but you wish you could chip in a few bucks to keep it going? Give "Buy Me A Coffee" a try. Help us work out the bugs...ha, ha, get it? bugs? and support resilience and biodiversity at the same time. Thanks!
Back issues of the Rhode Island Naturalist, the Survey's bulletin, is available here.