Fresh off work from the coolest job in the world, the Curator of Entomology at the San Diego Natural History Museum, Dr. Michael Wall, stops by to talk about the museum’s second annual Bio Blitz, being held this year at Mission Trails Regional Park.

San Diego County is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the U.S., but how do you determine how many species are in any given area, and how are plants and animals identified and counted? Bio Blitz condenses a typcially placid academic approach into a 24-hour blitz of discovery and categorization, acknowledging the speed with which species are coming to an early end because of climate change and habitat destruction.

More about this post at:

• A Race Against Time, Bio Blitz article by Dr. Michael Wall
• San Diego Natural History Museum
• 2009 Bio Blitz
• Mission Trails Regional Park
• Scientists Planning A Bio Blitz At Mission Trails (North County Times; 4/25/09)
• Bio Blitz This Weekend (KNSD-TV; 5/1/09)
• Climate Change: Pushing Species to the Brink (Science Daily; 10/13/08)
• Habitat Destruction Is the Largest of Many Threats to Biodiversity, Birdlife International