Keynote: Cartoons for Conservation
Cartoonist, naturalist, and author Rosemary Mosco explored the funny side of nature and explained how comics and science are natural allies. Rosemary also shared how she built a career that blends art and science, and told a few funny stories from the creation of her new book, The Birding Dictionary — a tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds.
About the Speaker
Rosemary Mosco is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world. She’s written and drawn for the New York Times, Audubon, Ranger Rick, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine, and more. She also creates acclaimed science books for kids and adults, and the award-winning nature comic Bird and Moon. A graduate of the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont, Rosemary has also served as a judge for a Festival of Bad Ad-hoc Hypotheses, judged a bird tattoo contest, and co-founded a week celebrating invertebrate butts.
Presentations
The 2025 conference featured 22 short talks and 9 poster presentations on topics ranging from owl migration to forest management, as well as tabling by more than 20 organizations and two field trips in partnership with the Monadnock Bird and Nature Club and Monadnock Mushroom Club. Presenters included wildlife biologists, foresters, historians, bird banders, trail cam experts, graduate students, community scientists – and even a butterfly wrangler or two. See below for the full program and a downloadable list of presentation abstracts.
Schedule & Abstracts
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