Using historic data sets (1884-1916) from Carlinville’s own Charles Robertson, Dr. John C. Marlin and his co-researchers quantified the degree to which changes in the local landscape and global conditions over 120 years disrupted plant-pollinator interactions in the same 10 mile area around Carlinville that Robertson collected his data. Read the results of this research:

The Native Bee Fauna of Carlinville, Illinois, Revisited After 75 Years: a Case for Persistence, Ecology and Society, 2001

Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function Science · March, 2013

Arvin Pierce

Xerces Habitat and Pesticides Model Policy

Effects of fungicides on pollinators

flowering bee lawn recommendations

Jim Bray

I’ve been involved with a water sampling project a few years now, set up as two student workers in which their positions are paid for externally. We have been monitoring Phosphorous and Nitrogen loss from farmlands in an attempt to first develop baseline data and hopefully figure out ways to curb said losses. It is part of a larger Macoupin Watershed project.

The two organizations involved are the American Farmland Trust and Illinois Stewardship Alliance.