Linda Crozier received a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. She was a post-doctoral fellows at the University of Chicago before joining the

Northwest Fisheries Science Center in 2004. She concentrated on the effects of climate change on butterfly ecophysiology and range shifts, before addressing these same issues in Pacific salmon.

Jeffrey Glassberg’s brief biographical sketch appeared in the Fall 2008 American Butterflies.

Rich Kelly is a charter member of the New York City Butterfly Club, and joined NABA at its inception. He has been the compiler of the Muttontown, New York Fourth

of July Butterfly Count for all of its 24 years, and served as the New York State Regional Editor of the Fourth of July Counts for a number of years. He is a retired Engineering Manager from Verizon. Other interests include birds, beetles, and botany.

Paulette Haywood Ogard and Sara Bright have collaborated for more than a decade to tell the life histories of southeastern butterflies through words and photographs. Paulette was a social worker and Sara, a

stockbroker, before they teamed up to focus on

Contributors native plants and butterflies. Both are married, and each is the mother of two sons. Their book, Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives, will be available in September 2010.

Mike Reese updates the NABA Recent Sightings web pages. He enjoys photographing wild flowers, birds, dragonflies, and, of course, butterflies. He is an educator in Wautoma, Wisconsin and has been recording and documenting the butterflies that are found there for over 15 years. He also maintains a website on the Butterflies of Waushara County, Wisconsin.

Leslie Ries is a conservation biologist who has worked largely on the impacts of landscape structure on habitat quality. All of her past field work has focused on butterflies. Leslie was an undergraduate at University of Maryland (Zoology). She received an M.S. in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in Biology from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a post-doctoral associate at the University of Maryland where she is working on the 4th of July dataset.

Harry Zirlin’s fascination with butterflies and other insects dates to his early childhood. He travels extensively in the United States, studying and photographing butterflies. He supports this passion by working as an attorney in the environmental area at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.

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