FrogWatch Training

Learn about how to become a FrogWatch community scientist and monitor frogs and toads throughout Louisiana.

Come learn about how to become a FrogWatch community scientist and monitor frogs and toads throughout Louisiana with Katherine Gividen. Help protect these important amphibians by gathering valuable information on frog and toad populations, distribution, and seasonal timing. Learn how to identify calling frogs and toads at wetlands in your community and add your observations to a national dataset.

The training will be followed by a short dinner break (bring you own) and a night nature walk led by Jason Puma (Rico Rabbits) and Katherine Gividen to identify bats, frogs and other amphibians.

🐸 THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED 🐸

Katherine Gividen is chapter coordinator of Cajun FrogWatch of Louisiana. She has served as facilitator for the Amphibian and Reptile Workshop for the Louisiana Master Naturalists of Greater Baton Rouge, and volunteered for Louisiana Amphibian and Reptile Enthusiasts (L.A.R.E.) Katherine received the Louisiana Wildlife Federation’s Governor’s Award – Conservationist of the Year for 2018 for her volunteer work to educate citizens about conservation in Louisiana.

Jason Puma (Rico Rabbits) is an independent herpetologist that got his love for herptiles when he caught a snake when he was first starting to walk in Oswego, NY. As a young teen he read books and talked to experienced outdoorsmen to learn more about these creatures. He has since traveled down the east coast and settled in Louisiana where he befriended Herp enthusiasts and broadened his knowledge through education around the state. He now lives by the motto "Love the unloved", and "Help the world understand the misunderstood one creature at a time", to get people to appreciate amphibians through education and conservation.