Valuing Insects with Stephen Hall
https://nc-biodiversity.com/
Dr. Hall will highlight how our relationship with insects, and to biodiversity more generally, is critical for preserving the natural world and ourselves within it. Dr. Hall brings to this presentation a wealth of knowledge from his 24 years working with the NC Natural Heritage Program as a landscape ecologist and invertebrate zoologist. With a BA in Zoology from Pomona College in Claremont, CA, Dr. Hall continued his studies for his PhD in Biology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with research on the movement patterns of Box Turtles. He worked in various university positions before joining the NC Natural Heritage Program in 1990. He also worked as an environmental review coordinator for the NC Division of Parks and Recreation in his earlier years. Since retirement, Dr. Hall has been working on several websites for the NC Biodiversity Project, mainly Moths of North Carolina and Orthoptera of North Carolina, currently listed as Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids.
In 2016 he was awarded the Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission as a leader in wildlife resources conservation and for outstanding contributions to wildlife diversity in North Carolina.