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Renowned Advisors
Bee City USA became a full-fledged initiative of the Xerces Society in 2018. In addition to the expertise of the Xerces staff, Bee City USA benefits from the counsel of knowledgeable advisors.
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Phyllis Stiles was named the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign’s United States’ Pollinator Advocate of the Year for 2015. Stiles has spent her career serving communities from West Africa to the Mississippi Delta, and non-profit organizations in fields ranging from natural resource and farmland protection to civic leadership development. She enjoys hiking, trying to speak French, and playing her upright bass. When she attended bee school in 2008, "they had her at hello." Since 2011, her days have been filled with learning all she can about pollinators, native plants, pesticides, and what people can do to support the 200,000+ species of hardworking pollinators that sustain our planet.
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Nancy Adamson is a partner biologist with the Xerces Society and the USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center (ENTSC). She supports pollinator conservation through habitat protection and restoration on farmlands. She joined the Xerces Society and started work at the ENTSC after earning her doctoral degree in entomology with research on bees important for crop pollination. She ran the horticulture and Master Gardener programs for Frederick County, Maryland’s Cooperative Extension, conducted botanical surveys for the New Jersey Natural Heritage Program and the wildflower seed company Bloomin’ Natives, facilitated educational programming and ran the native plant nursery at Adkins Arboretum, and taught at Echo Hill Outdoor School. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia, she also worked as an intern with the Nicaragua-U.S. Friendship Office and with Cultural Survival in Petén, Guatemala.
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Mark Winston is that rare individual, a scientist who can speak eloquently to the public. Recognized as one of the world’s leading expert on bees and pollination, Mark has had an illustrious career researching, teaching, writing, and commenting on bees and agriculture, environmental issues, and science policy. He directed Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue for 12 years, where he achieved wide recognition as a distinguished Canadian educator. He consults widely, in university, corporate, non-profit, government, and community settings, utilizing dialogue to advance communication skills, thoughtfully engage public audiences with controversial issues, implement experiential learning and community engagement in educational institutions, enhance leadership and develop/edit ideas, and proposals for non-fiction writing from newspaper opinion pieces to books. His book “Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive” won the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.
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Sam Droege coauthored Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World with Laurence Packer. He grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland and received an undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland and a Master’s at the State University of New York–Syracuse. Most of his career has been spent at the US Geological Service Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Currently he is developing an inventory and monitoring program for native bees, online identification guides for North American bees at www.discoverlife.org, and with Eric Ross reviving the North American Bird Phenology Program. Droege has coordinated the North American Breeding Bird Survey Program, developed the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program, the Bioblitz, Cricket Crawl, and FrogwatchUSA programs, and worked on the design and evaluation of monitoring programs.
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Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 84 research publications and has taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, Humans and Nature, Insect Ecology, and other courses for 34 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association. The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014. Among his awards are the Garden Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd, Jr. Award of Excellence.
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