Christina M. Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology at Penn State, will deliver a talk titled “Leveraging Technology to Conserve Pollinator Biodiversity” as part of the Penn State Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series.
Grozinger will discuss how multiple landscape-level stressors including limited floral resources, pesticide exposure, disease and climate change contribute to pollinator decline. Her research explores how improved nutrition can mitigate the effects of these stressors and how large-scale datasets can be used to identify key environmental drivers of bee health. The presentation will highlight her lab's development of artificial intelligence-enabled monitoring systems and tools such as Beescape, a decision-support platform that makes landscape quality data accessible to the public, policymakers and other stakeholders.