John Weber Legacy Butterfly Monitoring

In the early 1990s, John Weber retired and moved to northern Minnesota where he established many local butterfly survey routes, which he has conducted nearly every week of the northern Minnesota butterfly season since. His meticulous notes comprise scores of spiral bound notebooks and literally thousands of handwritten pages. He recently partnered with the Ries Lab of Butterfly Informatics at Georgetown University to digitize his data, which will be a major contribution to understanding northern butterfly population dynamics.