- Royce Fellowship
Shelby
Wilson
Concentration
Science and Society
Award Year
2014
Beyond the Hive: Citizen Science in Native Pollinator Ecology
Faculty Sponsor: Douglass Morse
Shelby engaged youth, conservation agencies, and academia in international and intergenerational dialogue regarding pollinator biology and conservation. Her research partners, mainly high school science students, received sufficient instruction and equipment to collaboratively design and implement surveys that investigate the effects of invasive flowering plants on the diversity and abundance of native bees. Shelby hopes her research will yield insight into native bee distributions and abundance while inspiring students through engagement with the scientific process and biodiversity.