Name: Illinois & Beyond! Herpetological research at the Field Museum
Start: 2025-03-01T13:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T14:00:00-0600

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 1:15pm - 2:00pm CST

Room 45

Getting visitors excited about natural history via public displays is a huge part of the museum mission. But did you know that museum scientists and collaborators conduct research locally and globally on a wide-variety of organisms? Dr. Sara Ruane, the Curator of Herpetology at the Field Museum and collaborators will speak about their research program, which has a strong focus on snakes. Topics may include projects centered in Chicagoland, including conducting re-surveys for reptiles and amphibians; in Madagascar, with a focus on the island’s endemic snake species, such as the Malagasy boas; and on what can be discovered right in the museum’s extensive collection of reptiles and amphibians from around the globe.

Presenters

Sara Ruane

Arianna Kuhn

Vertebrate Curator, Research Scientist, Illinois Natural History Survey

I am passionate about all things related to wild reptiles and amphibians. In particular, my research program seeks to leverage their unique evolutionary histories and an understanding of standing adaptive capacity to better predict how at risk species may respond to an ever changing... Read More →

Madelynn Sinclair

Saturday March 1, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm CST
Room 45

Wildlife, Intro

Session Session Block D: 1:15 - 2 PM

Wild Things 2025

Sara Ruane

Arianna Kuhn

Madelynn Sinclair

Attendees (119)

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