Anurag Agrawal grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was inspired by Dan Janzen to study plant-animal interactions. He went on to get his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis and then had a short stint on the faculty of the

Botany Department at the University of Toronto. Anurag has been studying milkweeds and Monarchs in Ithaca, NY, among other places, for the past 12 years. His research has been broad, embracing chemical ecology, ecological genetics, phylogenetic and comparative evolutionary analyses, and community ecology. He is currently professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Entomology at Cornell University. In his spare time, he chases after his kids, enjoys natural history, and plays squash.

Andrew (Andy) Davis is an assistant research scientist in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. He studies animal ecology, with a focus on physiological ecology, functional morphology and animal migration. He is originally from Canada and received Bachelor

and Master of Science degrees from Acadia University (in Nova Scotia). He obtained a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and Management from the University of Georgia. He resides in Athens, Georgia with his wife, Sonia Altizer (also a scientist who works on Monarchs) and 1-year-old son, Oscar (who already loves Monarchs).

Jaap de Roode works at Emory University, where he runs a research lab on parasites and

Contributors teaches ecology and evolution. Born in the Netherlands, he studied population biology at Wageningen University. He then moved to the University of Edinburgh to study malaria, which sparked a keen interest in disease. In 2005 he moved to the United States to study the parasites of Monarchs, first with Sonia Altizer at the University of Georgia, then in his own lab at Emory. Until he knew that butterflies carry interesting parasites, Jaap never used a butterfly net.

Roberto A. Lindig-Cisneros earned a Ph.D. degree in Ecological Restoration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a full-time researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, at Morelia, Michoacán. His research interests include the effect of restoring diversity on recovering ecosystem services, the development of control measures for invasive species for ecological restoration purposes and the assessment of restoration techniques for environmental and economic feasibility. All of his research involves participatory approaches involving rural communities.

Nathan Miller received his Master’s degree in Integrative Biology from the University of Guelph with a thesis researching the spring migration of the Monarch butterfly.

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Chapingo, México state, México and a Ph.D. in Forest Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is a full-time professor at the Institute for Research on Crop, Animal and Forestry Sciences (Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias y Forestales) of the State University of Michoacán (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo), at Morelia, Michoacán, México. His research is on genetic variation, conservation and management of forest genetic resources and adaptation to climatic change.

Ernest Williams is the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Biology at Hamilton College in upstate New York. He is author of The Nature Handbook (2005. Oxford University Press) and co-author of the Stokes Butterfly Book (1991. Little, Brown & Co.). He is a charter member of NABA and he has served as secretary of the Lepidopterists’ Society. His background includes a Ph.D. in Ecology from Princeton University and, with field work in Wyoming and New York, 20 + years studying the population biology and chemical ecology of brush-footed butterflies. His favorite species is Gillett’s Checkerspot, and his favorite place to spend a day is a Rocky Mountain meadow.

Harry Zirlin’s brief biographical sketch appeared in the Summer/Fall/Winter 2011 issue of American Butterflies.

Currently he lives in Fergus Ontario and works as a Terrestrial and Wetland Biologist for an environmental consulting firm based out of Waterloo, Ontario. Nathan is an avid naturalist and has been interested in insects, birds and other wildlife from an early age.

Berry Nall’s brief biographical sketch appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of American Butterflies.

Ryan Norris is currently an Associate Professor and University Research Chair in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of seasonality and migration on the population ecology

and behavior of birds and butterflies. In addition to Monarchs, he has conducted research on Neotropical-Nearctic songbirds and shorebirds, Pacific seabirds, tropical altitudinal migrants, and boreal resident Gray Jays.

Mike Reese updates the NABA Recent Sightings web pages. He enjoys photographing wild flowers, birds, dragonflies, and, of course, butterflies. He is an educator in Wautoma, Wisconsin and has been recording and documenting the butterflies that are found

there for over 15 years. He also maintains a website on the Butterflies of Wisconsin.

Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero was born in México city, México. He earned a Bch. in Biology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Xochimilco, Mexico DF, México, a M.Sc. at the Universidad Autónoma

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