Join mammal expert Dr. Erin Kuprewicz, from the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, on a guided educational hike and trail cleanup at UConn Storrs to celebrate Earth Day!
The community is invited to learn about local Connecticut mammals and how camera traps are used to observe the secret lives of these elusive creatures, all while helping clean an active research site. Dr. Kuprewicz will demonstrate how to set up a camera trap in the field and will also discuss her ongoing research in the massively collaborative camera-trapping project “Snapshot USA”. Snapshot USA was launched in 2019 to survey terrestrial wildlife populations across the United States and make the data collected freely available to everyone. This project involves over 115 collaborators from every state in the USA and has been running every fall for the past four years!
Sign-in begins at 9:45AM in W-Lot on Tower Loop Road, followed by a two-hour guided hike and trash pickup
Program participants will meet to sign in before we walk to the trailhead together. Hike is partially off trail, going through some areas of dense vegetation. Cleanup supplies (bags, gloves, and sanitizer) will be provided, but appropriate clothing and protective gear (sun/rain/mud) is required! Event will be held rain or shine!
UConn students are encouraged to join the Office of Sustainability after the demonstration to continue cleaning the campus center at Fairfield Way – campus cleanup ends at 2pm!
*** This event is FREE and open to the public, but registration is requested! ***
Parking information: Park in "Commuter Lot W" at UConn Storrs, across Rte 195 from the big red Jacobson Barn (please DO NOT park in the residential parking spaces in the nearby "Lot W Resident Student Parking"). Visit https://csmnh.uconn.edu/parking for additional parking information and maps.
Recommended for participants aged 8 and up; those 16 and under must be accompanied by a chaperone.
Visit https://csmnh.uconn.edu/programs/ for additional details
If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the CSMNH at 860-486-4460 or [email protected] by Monday April 17, 2023.
The cleanup portion of this event is being held in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability’s EcoCaptains as part of UConn’s Spring Weekend program. This campus cleanup is sponsored in part by The Last Green Valley’s Cleanup and Greenup Program.
The Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and the Office of Sustainability are units of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Connecticut.