Contributors , then in his own lab at Emory. Until he knew that butterflies Sonia Altizer is an carry interesting parasites, Jaap never used a Associate Professor butterfly net. in the Odum Leslie Ries is Don Stoltz is School of Jeffrey Glassberg’s brief biographical sketch a conservation originally from at the University appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of American biologist who southern Ontario, of Georgia. Butterflies. has worked where as a boy he She received largely on collected all sorts her Bachelor’s Kimberly Pegram the impacts of things, including degree from Duke is a graduate of landscape insects. He later University and a student working structure on pursued a career in Ph.D. from the in Ron Rutowski’s habitat quality. science, and in that University of lab at Arizona All of her past context has been Minnesota, where she was co-advised by State University. field work able to indulge all of Karen Oberhauser. For the past 15 years, She currently has focused his favorite interests (entomology, virology Sonia has studied Monarch behavior, ecology, studies the evolved on butterflies. Leslie was an undergraduate and microscopy). In 1974, he moved to and interactions with a protozoan parasite, design features of at University of Maryland (Zoology). She Dalhousie University, Halifax, where he began asking how seasonal migration of these warning coloration received an M.S. in Ecology, Evolution and to characterize some unusual parasitoid- butterflies affects parasite transmission. In using Pipevine Behavior from Iowa State University and associated viruses; this work eventually led to 2006, she launched the citizen science project Swallowtails. a Ph.D. in from Northern Arizona the establishment of a new family of viruses MonarchHealth, now in its 5th year, and also Kimberly graduated from the University of University. She is currently a post-doctoral (Polydnaviridae). Now officially retired, he’s maintains a webpage dedicated to Monarch Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA associate at the University of Maryland where nonetheless more likely to be found in his lab parasites (www.monarchparasites.org). Sonia where she did undergraduate research on she is working on the NABA 4th of July than anywhere else. In his spare time, Don is a founding member of the MonarchNet Painted Ladies with Joella Killian. Also as Butterfly Count dataset. takes delight in stalking neotropical insects steering committee, a group dedicated an undergraduate, she carried out surveys of with a camcorder. to integrating, analyzing and publicizing butterflies on Plummers Island with John W. Ron Rutowski has Harry Zirlin’s Monarch monitoring data. Brown at the Smithsonian’s National Museum been a Professor of fascination of Natural History as part of their Research Biology at Arizona with butterflies Training Program. State University since and other Jaap de Roode 1976 and has authored insects dates works at Emory Mike Reese updates over 80 publications to his early University, where the NABA Recent that have helped childhood. he runs a research Sightings web keep butterflies in He travels lab on parasites and pages. He enjoys the mainstream of extensively teaches ecology and photographing behavioral ecology. in the United evolution. Born in wild flowers, birds, His research has States, studying and photographing butterflies. the Netherlands, dragonflies, and, of focused on vision and He supports this passion by working as an he studied course, butterflies. visual signals in butterflies especially in the attorney in the environmental area at the New population biology He is an educator in context of mate choice and mate detection. York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. at Wageningen Wautoma, Wisconsin University. He then moved to the University and has been recording of Edinburgh to study malaria, which sparked and documenting the butterflies that are found a keen interest in disease. In 2005 he moved there for over 15 years. He also maintains a to the to study the parasites website on the Butterflies of Waushara County, of Monarchs, first with Sonia Altizer at the Wisconsin. 48 American Butterflies,Summer 2010 49