Rhode Island BioBlitz 2025 was June 6 & 7 in Glocester. Prelim count 270 participants and 1,181 species. Details here. Thanks to everyone who attended and especially to our hosts, the Glocester Land Trust, whose volunteers are THE BEST!
We will be scheduling some moth nights and other field events for this summer. Sign up for e-news to hear about them.
Last Wednesday Tea, 4 p.m. on the last Wednesday of every month. All are welcome, free, in-person at the office or online via zoom, your choice. Contact the office for zoom link.
We were heartbroken to learn of the passing, in early March, of Raul Ferreira, whom many of us knew as "the beetle guy" from BioBlitz. You can read his obituary here. Working with his family, the Survey established the Rosa and Raul Ferreira Young Entomologists Fellowship Fund to provide a fellowship annually to a 6th-12th grader to boost the insect team at BioBlitz and to further his/her 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.
The Survey has accomplished many remarkable things in its first 30 years; we need a strong vision to reach new heights in our 4th decade. With input from members, friends, board and staff, and peer organizations, we created a new strategic plan that restates the… Continue reading
by Robert D. Kenney Three of the previous installments in this Marine Mammals of Rhode Island series have been about seals that occur in our region—harbor seals, harp seals, and gray seals. Gray seals were also the subject of an article in the Fall 2022… Continue reading