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.
COMING SOON: BORIIS2, the Biota of Rhode Island Index System, the new biodiversity database for the state, thanks to support from the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, RI Conservation Stewardship Collaborative, Blackburn Labs, private donors, and the members of the Natural History Survey. Stay tuned.
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.