Name: Community Science as an Avenue for Mutually Beneficial Relationships Between People, Plants and Pollinators
Start: 2025-03-01T16:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T17:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST

Room 42

What can social science help us understand about the mutually beneficial relationships between people, plants and pollinators in urban and suburban settings? What about the impacts of community science projects on the people who participate? Evaluation feedback of the Field Museum’s 4-year-long Monarch Community Science Project (MCSP) signaled that further investigation was warranted. The Field Museum’s social scientists subsequently conducted 20 qualitative, semi-structured interviews of MCSP participants from 2022. In this session researchers will share their preliminary findings. The presenters will discuss themes around motivation, networks, conservation action, pollinator attitudes, well-being, and more.

Presenters

Nicole Machuca

Environmental Social Scientist, Field Museum

City kid, wannabe naturalist and aspiring cat lady. Keeping my eye out for under-appreciated urban pollinators and anything else interesting I see along the way. Professionally I'm an environmental social scientist and community engagement specialist with expertise in qualitative... Read More →

Mario Longoni

Lead Environmental Social Scientist, Field Museum

Saturday March 1, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm CST
Room 42

Plants & Pollinators, Technical

Session Session Block G: 4:15 - 5 PM

Wild Things 2025

Nicole Machuca

Mario Longoni

Attendees (84)

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