Date: 1/20/26 2:24 pm From: Sandra Laursen <salaursen...> Subject: [cobirds] BCAS program: Intersecting Birds, Science, and Art - Johanna Beam - Tu 1/27/26
Please join Boulder County Audubon for our monthly speaker series!Intersecting
Birds, Science, and ArtTuesday, January 27, 2026
cookes & conversation starting at 6:30 PM
program at 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder
5001 Pennsylvania Avenue Boulder, CO, 80303
What do art, science, and eBird sightings all have in common? Dr. Johanna
Beam will dive into her personal journey from teen naturalist to research
scientist and everything in between. Johanna will talk about all the
various ways scientists *and* illustrators use eBird data in their work,
including how eBird data has shed light on species’ ranges and evolutionary
history with Yellow-breasted Chat and Chihuahuan Meadowlark.
Dr. Johanna Beam is a postdoctoral research fellow at Colorado State and
Texas Tech universities. She studies evolutionary genomics in birds and is
also a scientific illustrator.
As a high school student, Johanna's keen eye and ear led her to notice an
odd-looking meadowlark. Her curiosity about this bird turned into a
successful undergraduate research project
<https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2022/08/24/chihuahuan-meadowlark-lilians> on
the bird's genetics and ultimately a first-author report describing a new
species, the Chihuahuan Meadowlark, accepted to the official North American
species list
<https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/lilmea2/cur/introduction> in 2022.
Johanna will share more about this story and her journey as a birder,
scientist, and scientific illustrator.
I'm excited about this one and hope you'll attend too.
- Sandra Laursen
for the BCAS programs committee
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