teaches ecology and Contributors evolution. Born in the Netherlands, he studied population biology at Currently he lives in Fergus Ontario and works Chapingo, México state, Anurag Agrawal Wageningen University. as a Terrestrial and Wetland Biologist for an México and a Ph.D. grew up in Allentown, He then moved to the environmental consulting firm based out of in Forest Genetics Pennsylvania. He University of Edinburgh Waterloo, Ontario. Nathan is an avid naturalist at the University of attended the University to study malaria, which and has been interested in insects, birds and Wisconsin-Madison, of Pennsylvania, where sparked a keen interest other wildlife from an early age. USA. He is a full-time he was inspired by Dan in disease. In 2005 he professor at the Institute Janzen to study plant- moved to the United Berry Nall’s brief biographical sketch appeared for Research on Crop, animal interactions. He States to study the Animal and Forestry went on to get his Ph.D. parasites of Monarchs, in the Spring 2012 issue of American Butterflies. from the University of first with Sonia Altizer at the University of Sciences (Instituto California at Davis and Georgia, then in his own lab at Emory. Until he Ryan Norris is currently de Investigaciones then had a short stint knew that butterflies carry interesting parasites, an Associate Professor Agropecuarias y Forestales) of the State on the faculty of the Jaap never used a butterfly net. and University Research University of Michoacán (Universidad Botany Department at the University of Toronto. Chair in the Department Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo), at Anurag has been studying milkweeds and Roberto A. Lindig- of Integrative Biology Morelia, Michoacán, México. His research is on Monarchs in Ithaca, NY, among other places, for Cisneros earned at the University of genetic variation, conservation and management the past 12 years. His research has been broad, a Ph.D. degree in Guelph. His research of forest genetic resources and adaptation to embracing chemical ecology, ecological genetics, Ecological Restoration focuses on the causes climatic change. phylogenetic and comparative evolutionary at the University of and consequences of analyses, and community ecology. He is Wisconsin-Madison. seasonality and migration Ernest Williams currently professor of Ecology and Evolutionary He is a full-time on the population ecology is the Leonard C. Biology, and Entomology at Cornell University. researcher at the Centro and behavior of birds and butterflies. In addition Ferguson Professor of In his spare time, he chases after his kids, enjoys de Investigaciones to Monarchs, he has conducted research on Biology at Hamilton natural history, and plays squash. en Ecosistemas Neotropical-Nearctic songbirds and shorebirds, College in upstate of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Pacific seabirds, tropical altitudinal migrants, New York. He is Andrew (Andy) Davis Mexico, at Morelia, Michoacán. His research and boreal resident Gray Jays. author of The Nature is an assistant research interests include the effect of restoring Handbook (2005. scientist in the Odum diversity on recovering ecosystem services, the Mike Reese updates Oxford University School of Ecology at the development of control measures for invasive the NABA Recent Press) and co-author University of Georgia. species for ecological restoration purposes Sightings web pages. He of the Stokes Butterfly He studies animal and the assessment of restoration techniques enjoys photographing Book (1991. Little, ecology, with a focus on for environmental and economic feasibility. wild flowers, birds, Brown & Co.). He is a charter member of physiological ecology, All of his research dragonflies, and, of NABA and he has served as secretary of the functional morphology involves participatory course, butterflies. Lepidopterists’ Society. His background includes approaches involving and animal migration. He He is an educator in a Ph.D. in Ecology from Princeton University rural communities. is originally from Canada Wautoma, Wisconsin and, with field work in Wyoming and New York, and received Bachelor and has been recording 20 + years studying the population biology and Nathan Miller received and Master of Science degrees from Acadia and documenting the chemical ecology of brush-footed butterflies. his Master’s degree University (in Nova Scotia). He obtained a Ph.D. butterflies that are found His favorite species is Gillett’s Checkerspot, in Integrative Biology in Wildlife Ecology and Management from the there for over 15 years. He also maintains a and his favorite place to spend a day is a Rocky from the University University of Georgia. He resides in Athens, website on the Butterflies of Wisconsin. Mountain meadow. Georgia with his wife, Sonia Altizer (also a of Guelph with a thesis researching the scientist who works on Monarchs) and 1-year-old Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero was born Harry Zirlin’s brief biographical sketch spring migration of son, Oscar (who already loves Monarchs). appeared in the Summer/Fall/Winter 2011 issue the Monarch butterfly. in México city, México. He earned a Bch. in Biology at the Universidad Autónoma of American Butterflies. Jaap de Roode works at Emory University, Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico DF, where he runs a research lab on parasites and (Continued on page 41) México, a M.Sc. at the Universidad Autónoma 48 American Butterflies,Summer 2012 49