VES Events and Field Trips

We like to get outside. So here's a list of field outings and events. If you have something to add, send it to our webmaster, Bryan Pfeiffer.

Although details aren’t worked out for everything listed below, this schedule provides a “heads up” for upcoming events. Check back to this page for updates.

May 29
The Helen W. Buckner Memorial Preserve at Bald Mountain in West Haven
Here's a web link about the site. Rain date May 30.

June 9-12
BELLFEST- 2010
BELLFEST will be a celebration of the 50- year career of Ross and Joyce Bell (Department of Biology, University of Vermont) in biological education and insect systematics. Colleagues and other friends will gather in Burlington, June 9-12, 2010, to participate in a symposium, banquet, and a day in the field for insect collecting, etc. Said symposium will feature two days of scientific presentations (talks and posters). Within a year of the meeting, a Festschrift will be published, based primarily on the presentations offered during the symposium, but open to later contributions. All are welcome to attend. Here are some details:

The advance registration fee is $U.S. 50.00, payable by check by May 15 to BELLFEST-2010. Send to the Treasurer: Jessica J. Rykken Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. After 15 May, the registration fee is $US 75.00, payable at time of on site registration. The cost of the banquet has yet to be determined. Tickets may be purchased at the time of on-site registration. Further information will be provided, as it becomes available.

On behalf of the BELLFEST-2010 Organizing Committee, George E. Ball, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9 CANADA gball@ualberta.ca Phone: (780) 492-2084

July 11 / 10am - noon
Birds of Vermont Museum Butterfly (and other insects) Walk
Our annual butterfly walk at Birds of Vermont Museum in Huntington.

July 24 - Goodsell Ridge and Alburg Dunes
Rain date July 25

July 31
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, Nulhegan Basin Division
On Route 105 between Island Pond and Bloomfield. (See http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=53590.) This trip is tentative at this point.

August 28 - Field trip to NatureHaven in Milton
Rain date August 29