Workshop 2 recap: Conservation goals for native bee monitoring

This workshop was co-organized by Sarina Jepsen of The Xerces Society, Tam Smith of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Hollis Woodard of UC Riverside, and focused on articulating the conservation goals of native bee monitoring. Specifically, we asked the bee conservation community to share their data goals are describe how bee monitoring programs could be tailored to best meet those goals. The workshop featured invited speakers that addressed key topics related to bee conservation through monitoring and highlight different conservation frameworks.

The workshop report can be found here.

The speakers were (links go to recorded presentations on our YouTube channel):

• Sarina Jepsen and Rich Hatfield, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, on continental-scale bee monitoring

• Jenn Servis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on data needs for Endangered Species Act listing and recovery

• Elizabeth Crisfield, Strategic Stewardship Initiative, on data use cases for a national bee monitoring strategy

• Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University, on monitoring multiple bee life stages

• Rachael Winfree, Rutgers University, on monitoring for rare bee species conservation