News from Scientists at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
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Presents Poster Entitled "Identification of Bat Strikes"
at the Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada in Sacramento
Suzanne Peurach presented a poster entitled, Identification of Bat Strikes at the Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada. The meetings were held in Sacramento, California during the week of October 21, 2002. More than 400 guests attended 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. Contact: Suzanne Peurach, 202-357-1865 Patuxent's Reynolds Participates in Systematics Summit at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center Bob Reynolds of USGS Patuxent's Biological Survey Unit at the National Museum of Natural History participated in a Systematics Summit at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), Beltsville, MD, on 1 November 2002. More than twenty national and international participants were brought together for the purpose of helping to generate a vision for the future of systematics at BARC over the next ten years, and to help chart the course for agricultural systematics in the 21st century. Key parts of this effort will focus on increasing resources devoted to systematics programs, and expanding opportunities for training the next generation of systematists through partnerships with Universities and other Government agencies involved in systematics research. Contact: Bob Reynolds 202-357-1930 Woodman Presents Seminar Entitled "Quaternary size evolution in Goodwin's small-eared shrew, Cryptotis goodwini, from Honduras" at the International Colloquium: Biology of the Soricidae II The International Colloquium: Biology of the Soricidae II took place from 14-18 October at Powdermill Biological Station in the scenic hills of western Pennsylvania, and included participants from Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, South Africa, western Europe, Venezuela, Mexico, and the United States. Dr Neal Woodman, Biological Survey Unit, National Museum of Natural History, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, presented a platform presentation entitled, "Quaternary size evolution in Goodwin's small-eared shrew, Cryptotis goodwini, from Honduras." Contact: Neal Woodman 202-786-2483 |
Patuxent's
Chandler Robbins Speaks at 70th Anniversary Convention of Brooks
Bird Club in West Virginia and Washington College in
Chestertown, MD
Dr Chandler Robbins was recently the banquet speaker at the 70th anniversary convention of the Brooks Bird Club at Tygart Lake State Park in West Virginia. He discussed 50-year changes in breeding bird populations on the Allegheny Plateau, based on ten study sites in western Maryland that he revisited five decades after his initial breeding bird censuses there. He used bird population trend maps from the Patuxent website to show how changes on the Allegheny Plateau relate to continent-wide trends. On November 5, Dr Robbins will be guest lecturer at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, discussing, Tracking Our Ever-changing Bird Populations: What Do We Know and What Can We Do? Contact: Chandler S. Robbins 301-497-5641 Woodman is Invited Speaker for Seminar Entitled "Patterns of Evolution in the Cyrptotis mexicana-group of small-eared shrews" at George Washington University On November 1, Dr Neal Woodman of the Biological Survey Unit, National Museum of Natural History, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, was the invited speaker for a seminar in the Department of Biology, George Washington University in Washington, DC. The title of the presentation was, "Patterns of evolution in the Cryptotis mexicana-group of small-eared shrews." Contact: Neal Woodman 202-786-2483
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