News from Scientists at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Monday, August 11, 2003
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Bird
Strike Committee USA
Suzanne Peurach will be presenting a poster entitled "Waiter, there’s a hair in my birdstrike!" at the Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada Meetings in Toronto, Canada, during the week of August 18th, 2003. More than 200 guests representing all branches of the United States military as well as other government agencies and organizations including the U. S. Department of Defense, U. S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and representatives from civilian airports worldwide will be in attendance. Suzanne has been providing identifications of bat remains recovered from aircraft strikes for the past six years. The information from these identifications may not only be useful to airfield managers, pilots, or government agencies, but may also provide an especially valuable means of documenting patterns of bat movements for the scientific community. Contact Suzanne Peurach, Washington, DC, 202-357-1865 Biologists and Students Working Together Students
from area high schools have volunteered to assist our biologist over the
years and the tradition continues. As in previous years these students tend to be the elite of
Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. They often volunteer part time during the summer and then
either mornings or afternoons 4 days a week throughout the school year.
The students received their own project and create a report on the
subject. These projects can often be parts of something else that the
biologists are working on. It
is a very popular form of community outreach and we often have more high
school volunteers then we have positions to fill. Contact
Donald W. Sparling, Laurel, MD, 301-497-5723 Behind
the scenes tour Suzanne Peurach gave a behind the scenes tour of the National Museum of Natural History, Division of Mammals, to a group of 10 students representing the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars program. This program selects high school students with financial need and provides them with individualized educational experiences to help them develop their talents and abilities. For more information about this program visit http://www.jackkentcookefoundation.org . Contact Suzanne Peurach, Washington, DC, 202-357-1865 EURING
Conference Mary Gustafson, Acting Chief, Bird Banding Laboratory, will attend
the European Union for Bird Ringing (EURING) General Session in Chemnitz,
Germany, August 22. This
meeting is the only meeting of banding schemes (organizations that manage
bird bird bands and banding) in the world, providing a valuable opportunity
for sharing information. Mary
will also be attending the European Ornithologists Union Meeting immediately
prior to the EURING General Session and will present a paper on "Bird Ringing and Conservation: The
North American
Perspective". Contact
Mary Gustafson, Laurel, MD
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Patuxent
Scientist Organizes International Workshop on Urban Ecology Dr.
Glenn R Guntenspergen is a member of the organizing committee that presented
the first International Workshop focused specifically on the ecology of
urban and suburban environments. “The
Comparative Ecology of Cities and Towns” was held at the
Australian Research Center for Urban Ecology, University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia July 19-22, 2003. The workshop was designed to provide
a forum for the discussion of critical issues involved in developing
comparative studies of cities and towns around the world. Workshop
participants evaluated the current state of understanding regarding the
ecology of cities and towns, identified new research directions, developed
mechanisms to facilitate interactions between scientists in different parts
of the globe, and produced a workshop synthesis. Contact:
Glenn R Guntenspergen, Superior, WI 218-720-4307 Publication
by Patuxent Scientist Contact
James Nichols, Laurel, MD, 301-497-5660 Who’s
Who in America USGS
Scientist Dr. J. Michael Meyers has been nominated and selected for Who's
Who in America 2004. His
management and research in restoration of the southeastern population of the
bald eagle, in migratory birds, and in development of telemetry used
world-wide on parrots are featured in the biography.
Dr. Meyers's biography will be published in the 106th edition of
Who's Who and on Who's Who ON THE WEB with over one million biographies.
Contact J. Michael Meyers, Athens, GA 706-542-1235 |
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