CANCELLED Walk/talk with Nolan Fernandez

Join Nolan Fernandez, the outreach coordinator for the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at UMass Amherst, for an informative talk about ticks and the diseases they can transmit, including Lyme disease, babesiosis, and a number of newly emerging pathogens. He will describe ticks’ life cycles and preferred habitats as well as the preventative measures that can be taken while walking or exercising outdoors. Nolan will lead a walk around a portion of the conservation area and flag for ticks, which is the process used to collect wild ticks. As this will show, ticks really are everywhere we go.