World renowned biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson will give the keynote address at Discover Life in America's ATBI Conference 2012 on March 23, 2012!

Edward O. Wilson, recently called “one of the most important biological theorists since Darwin” by The New York Times, returns to East Tennessee for a special appearance at Discover Life in America’s ATBI Conference 2012.

Calling all citizens concerned for the well-being of Great Smoky Mountain National Park’s forests!

The Tree Team project is designed to find if relationships exist between arthropods and high elevation clonal American Beech trees, Fagus grandifolia. A series of active and passive collection techniques are being used to capture arthropods within American Beech stands and control sites. If all continues to go well, the project could expand to other trees that are of conservation concern within the park.   

Discover Life in America will not offer grants in 2012, but instead, on behalf of the Park, seeks short proposals (200 words or less) that target the following Smokies’ ATBI priority groups. Also click here for more info.

HIGH – Introductory

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Diptera (not including crane flies, mosquitoes, tephritids, tabanids and other groups that have already received work)

Parasitic wasps (ichneumonids, braconids, etc.)

Terrestrial Hemiptera, especially aphids, fulgoroids, etc.

Crustaceans, especially ostracods, fairy shrimp, etc.

Mites – free living and parasitic

Nematodes

Fungi, especially aquatics and ascomycetes

Protozoa

Microbes: archaea, bacteria, microsporidia, viruses

HIGH – Finish up group of any size.

Chilopods (centipedes)

Earthworms

Mecoptera (scorpionflies)

Ticks

Bryozoans/hydras/sponges

Aquatic snails

Odonates (dragon & damselflies)

Platyhelminthes

HIGH – At Risk Communities

Fraser fir remnant areas, hemlock stands, xeric cliffs/new lands on TN side of Rt. 129 corridor, globally imperiled wetlands/other communities.