February 13, 2023
Insects, especially mosquitoes, have gotten a bad rap. But they do provide beneficial services that you may not have thought about. Andy Sipocz talks about the role insects play in coastal wetland ecology, including why mosquitoes are important.
About the Speaker
Andy Sipocz is a biologist and natural resources coordinator for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Region 4. He monitors, manages, and restores the natural landscape of state parks from Lake Somerville to Nacogdoches over to the Louisiana border, and southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Sipocz has expertise in impact assessment, wetlands and plant taxonomy. He graduated from Purdue University in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in forestry and received a master’s degree in 1993 from Texas A&M University. Sipocz is a published independent researcher.
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