Gordon Frankie

Gordon Frankie is a professor and research entomologist in the Division of Insect Biology, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley. His specialty is behavioral ecology of solitary bees in wildland and urban environments of California and Costa Rica. He also teaches conservation and environmental problem-solving at U.C. Berkeley.

Mary Schindler

Mary Schindler is a recent graduate from U.C. Berkeley who became involved in Dr. Gordon Frankie's bee research 4 years ago. Since she began this research, she has had the opportunity to watch thousands of bees in action as they interact with flowers (natives and exotics) in the urban and natural environment. The aspect of her research she most enjoys is fieldwork, which involves wandering around in nature reserves and beautiful residential gardens, observing gorgeous flowers, and counting bees at work.

Robbin Thorp

Robbin W. Thorp is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of California, Davis. He retired in 1994 after 30 years of teaching, research, and mentoring graduate students. He continues to conduct research on pollination biology and ecology, systematics, biodiversity and conservation of bees. He has special interests in native bees of the vernal pool ecosystem. For more information on life history and pollination by these bees, see: www.vernalpools.org/Thorp/.

Megan Konar

Megan has always loved biology, and a Summer in Georgia helping newly hatched baby loggerhead turtles convinced her that she wanted to study ecology in college. Luckily, she was accepted to the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied Conservation and Resource Studies and minored in Forestry, was fascinated in all of her classes and met many amazing people. Now she is working as a professional ecologist with the US Army Corp of Engineers in Chicago on stream resoration projects. She is planning to return to school to obtain a doctorate in Environmental Studies and dreams of one day becoming a professor.

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