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News

3/6/2009 - Identifying At-Risk Areas for Spread of Avian Influenza into Egypt
USGS experts in satellite telemetry are working with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, government agencies, and NGOs to help track movements of wild waterfowl in support of surveillance programs in countries with avian influenza outbreaks. During January 2009, USGS scientists began a collaborative effort at Lake Manzala near Port Said, as part of a global program to better understand the movements of waterbirds within migratory flyways, interactions among wild and domestic birds, and findings from avian influenza surveillance. Movements of satellite-tagged waterfowl can be viewed at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center web site.

Events

3/23/2009 - 3/24/2009 - 2009 International Sirenian Conservation Conference
2009 International Sirenian Conservation Conference at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23-24, 2009.
Hosts/Sponsor: The Georgia Aquarium and the Marine Mammal Research and Conservation Program, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University.  This two-day international conference will combine a variety of invited and selected speakers to share a broad spectrum of manatee and dugong conservation issues from a global perspective.

3/16/2009 - 3/21/2009 - 74th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference
74th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference - Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia.  The topic of this conference is Refining the Relevance of Resource Management.  Go to the website for more information.