Wings in windowsills: restoring habitat with community science

The Chicago Field Museum partners with the community on a variety of science projects, including an effort to restore the Eastern Monarch Butterfly population (which has declined 80% in the past two decades). We sit down with Mark Johnston and Karen Klinger, GIS analysts for the museum, and discuss how they employ community science to gather data, restore habitats, and raise awareness of conservation issues in Chicago and beyond.

Additional resources

• Monarch Community Science Hub
• Chicago Wilderness Hub
• Field Museum homepage
• Rights-of-way as Habitat working group
• Rights-of-way as Habitat Geospatial Database
• To Save the Monarch Butterfly: Taking Action with Maps