A developing global crisis could have serious implications on our food security and biodiversity for generations to come. Pollinators are they key agent in randomly delivering genetic material to plants, but a number of issues including climate change, colony collapse disorder, pollinator food source, urban development, etc is affecting this natural phenomenon.

Imagine you are the natural biosphere of VT, covering a large territory which often sees pollinators migrating through seasonally. We will explore the cause and effect of pollinator decline - what we know and don’t know. How large is this problem and what are the implications for other areas of the biosphere? Students will investigate colony collapse disorder, large scale plant phenology and other ways the biosphere is currently changing. To help educate the community, students will produce animated stories placed as geocache maps of this information viewed through augmented reality (AR).