All are welcome!

CTC Members and guests are invited but seating is limited.  

Membership renewals, may be made by mail or online at http://cayugatrailsclub.org/join/  

Cayuga Trails Club Annual Meeting

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Baker Institute for Animal Health

235 Hungerford Hill Rd, Ithaca

1:30 pm – Doors open

2:00 pm – Business Meeting

Committe Reports

Election of Officers

Oscar Awards for Distinguished Service

2:45 pm – Guest speaker

3:30 pm – Reception

Special Presentation

Professor Anurag Agrawal

Of Monarchs and Milkweed

Professor Anurag Agrawal will tell us about Monarch butterflies, their intimate relationship with milkweeds and their amazing migration between summer habitats in eastern US and Canada to their overwintering sites in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. More on Professor Agrawal below. 

CTC members and guests must reserve their seats, as seating is limited

Important – Registration Deadline is Sunday, January 8^th

Questions? Contact Marsha Zgola at mmz2@cornell.edu  

Anurag Agrawal is an evolutionary ecologist working on local biodiversity, particularly chemically mediated interactions between plants and their herbivorous insect pests. He uses natural history, field experiments, genetics, and comparative biology to test theory as well improve environmental and agricultural sustainability. Most recently he is known for work on monarch butterflies and their milkweed hosts. He earned a B.A. in Biology and M.A. in Conservation Biology from the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and a PhD in Population Biology from the University of California at Davis (1999). He held a faculty position in the Department of Botany at the University of Toronto before moving to Cornell University in 2004, where he is jointly appointed as the James Perkins Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Entomology. He and his family are avid hikers, and have enjoyed traversing the trails near and far.