Mace Vaughan
Conservation Director
mace@xerces.org

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Mace has led the Xerces Society's Agricultural Pollinator Conservation program for the last four years. In this capacity, he supervises research and outreach on habitat restoration for crop pollinating native bees, develops and presents educational materials to growers, conservationists, land managers and policy makers, and collaborates extensively with scientists researching the role and habitat needs of crop-pollinating native bees.

He has written numerous articles on the conservation of bees, butterflies, aquatic invertebrates, and insects, and is co-author of the Pollinator Conservation Handbook and lead author of Farming for Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms. He has spoken on numerous occasions about pollinator conservation and invertebrate conservation and he was a lecturer on honey bee biology and beekeeping at Cornell University. His background includes Masters Degrees in Entomology and Teaching from Cornell University, research into the behavior and community ecology of insects, and stints as an insect wrangler for PBS Nature.

Mace has worked for the Xerces Society since February 2001, first as the Staff Entomologist and now as the Conservation Director. In addition to leading the Agricultural Pollinator Program, he helps develop strategies for the Society to further its mission to protect biodiversity and the ecosystems upon which invertebrates and, ultimately, people depend.

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