UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Christina M. Grozinger, Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology at Penn State, will deliver a talk titled “Leveraging Technology to Conserve Pollinator Biodiversity” as part of the Penn State Department of Geography's Coffee Hour lecture series. The event will be held at noon on Friday, Sept. 12, in 401 Steidle Building at Penn State University Park and will also be accessible via Zoom.
Grozinger will discuss how multiple landscape-level stressors including limited floral resources, pesticide exposure, disease and climate change contribute to pollinator decline. Her research explores how improved nutrition can mitigate the effects of these stressors and how large-scale datasets can be used to identify key environmental drivers of bee health. The presentation will highlight her lab's development of artificial intelligence-enabled monitoring systems and tools such as Beescape, a decision-support platform that makes landscape quality data accessible to the public, policymakers and other stakeholders.
Grozinger is director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and founding director of Penn State’s Center for Pollinator Research, which brings together experts from nine colleges across the University. Her work integrates approaches from genetics to spatial ecology to inform pollinator management and conservation.
A fellow of both the Entomological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Grozinger received the 2021 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences and the 2022 Penn State President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Integration. She earned her bachelor’s in chemistry and biology from McGill University and her master’s and doctorate from Harvard University.
For more information about her work and lab resources, visit the Center for Pollinator Research, the INSECT NET Graduate Training Program, Beescape and the Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab.
Grozinger’s lecture is part of the fall 2025 "Coffee Hour" seminar series hosted by Penn State’s Department of Geography. To learn more and access Zoom information, visit the Coffee Hour event webpage.