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About the Instructors, Winter-Spring 2012
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Jan Chu is co-author of the recently published book, Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range. She is a retired biology teacher and has been a volunteer naturalist for Boulder County Parks and Open Space conducting inventories of butterfly species on open space lands. Jan has also organized Fourth of July butterfly counts at the Cal-Wood Education Center in Jamestown for 27 years.
Janice Forbis is a botanist and horticulturist who is currently the assistant greenhouse manager at the University of Colorado. She has worked as a seasonal plant ecologist for Boulder County and enjoys getting out in the field and identifying plants from the prairies to the alpine. Her study of tropical plants in the greenhouse and native plants in the landscape gives her broad experience and knowledge of the plant world.
Joyce Gellhorn is the author of Song of the Alpine and White-tailed Ptarmigan. She has taught field classes in Boulder County for 28 years to students ranging in age from four to eighty-four, while providing a broad eco-logical perspective in all of her teaching. Joyce will be assisting Janice Forbis in teaching the orchids class.
Steve Jones is author/co-author of Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range, Wild Boulder County, The Last Prairie, The Shortgrass Prairie, Colorado Nature Almanac, and Peterson Field Guide to the North American Prairie. Steve organized the BCNA small owl and wintering raptor studies and helped carry out the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas project. He has taught nature classes in Boulder County for 28 years.
Christian Nunes is a lifelong birder and naturalist. He currently works for the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Department as a wildlife monitoring technician. Much of his time is spent hiking around the foothills observing and cataloging the rich avifauna and other wildlife. In addition to birding throughout the US, Christian has taken birding forays into Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Scott Severs has been fascinated by birds since he was a toddler when he compiled a list of birds visiting his grandmother’s backyard. With a degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University, he enjoys field biology and currently works as an ecological consultant for Walsh Environmental. Scott has taught BCNA classes on warblers, sparrows, and bird migration in addition to his course on dragonflies. He currently helps coordinate the Dinosaur Ridge Hawk Watch near Morrison.
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