Student-Professional Ornithologist Social
Organized by: The AOU Student Affairs Committee
Contact: Karan Odom (kjodom@gmail.com)
Date & Time: 6 August 2008 (Wednesday) from 18:30 – 20:00
Location: Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
Food: Variety of sandwiches, snacks and a cash bar.
Cost: Free!!
This dinner provides an informal setting for students and professional ornithologists to meet and discuss common research interests. Professionals will be seated at tables organized by areas of interest. Students will circulate among the tables and sit with professionals who share their interests. At the dinner nine different research areas will be represented including:
- Avian physiology/Morphology
- Systematics/Evolution
- Migration/Orientation
- Behavior
- Breeding Biology
- Avian Community/Landscape Ecology
- Avian Disease
- Conservation
- Population Ecology/Demography
A mix of sandwiches (vegetarian or meat) will be served as well as water or lemonade and a light snack. The cost of the dinner will be paid with funds from the American Ornithological Union. The dinner is open to students who are current members of AOU, SCO, or COS. Space is limited and students will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Interested students should contact Karan Odom at kjodom@gmail.com.
Some of this year’s professional participants include:
- Alexander, Badyaev, University of Arizona
- Debra, Badzinski, Bird Studies Canada
- Richard, Banks, National Museum of Natural History
- Jim, Bednarz, Arkansas State University
- Steven, Beissinger, U. C. Berkeley
- Richard, Bierregaard, UNC-Charlotte
- Kimberly, Bostwick, Cornell University
- Reed, Bowman, Archbold Biological Station
- Jeffrey , Brawn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Janis, Dickinson, Cornell University
- Paul, Doherty, Colorado State University
- John, Dunning, Purdue University
- John, Faaborg, University of Missouri
- Guillermo, Fernandez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Goncalo, Ferraz, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- John, Fitzpatrick, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Frank, Gill, American Ornithologists’ Union
- Christopher, Guglielmo, University of Western Ontario
- Mark, Hauber, University of Auckland
- Geoffrey, Hill, Auburn University
- Wesley, Hochachka, Cornell University
- Rebecca , Holberton, University of Maine
- Ellen, Ketterson, Indiana University
- Alicia, King, American Bird Conservancy
- Irby, Lovette, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Peter, Marra, National Zoological Park
- Sara, Morris, Canisius College
- Kevin, Omland, UMBC Univ Maryland
- Catherine, Ortega, Fort Lewis College
- Joseph , Ortega, Fort Lewis College
- Timothy, Parker, Whitman College
- A. Townsend, Peterson, University of Kansas
- Albert, Phillimore, Imperial College London
- Juan, Reboreda, University of Buenos Aires
- J., Remsen, Louisiana State University
- Terrell, Rich, USFWS
- Stephen , Rothstein, University of California
- Brett, Sandercock, Kansas State University
- Mark, Stanback, Davidson College
- Philip, Stouffer, Louisiana State University
- Pablo, Tubaro, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales
- Karen, Wiebe, University of Saskatchewan
- John , Wingfield, University of California
- Hans, Winkler, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Liana , Zanette, University of Western Ontario
- Marlene, Zuk, University of California, Riverside