Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, February 10th, 2020 and

I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria.

And before we dive into the show,

I want to thank those of you who have made

talk nerdy possible this week.

The top patrons on Patreon,

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Nava and her son I think Jim, Jim, yeah.

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Thank you all so much.

It's because of you that this show keeps ongoing,

especially on weeks where I don't sell any ads like this week,

so we're just going to go straight on through with the episode.

Okay guys this one's pretty fascinating so I sat down with two individuals this week.

Paul Quitkowski who is the Wildlife Conservation and

Sustainability Manager at Mount Auburn Cemetery, along with Dr. Maria

Aliberty Lobertase, who is an adjunct faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design

and also an environmental scientist specializing in wetland and urban ecology.

She is actually collaborating with Mount Auburn's cemetery on biodiversity research and education.

So between Paul and Maria, we chat about the really cool urban ecology citizen science projects

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