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DOS May Meeting: “Presentations by University of Delware Students”
May 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Doors open at 7:00 pm. Come early to socialize and meet DOS officers and the rest of the birding community! Meeting and live stream begin at 7:30 pm.
Join us for one of the most popular meetings of the year where 3 students doing research on birds at the University of Delaware will make short presentations about their research.
The May DOS meeting will feature important business updates, including budget, future dues, officer elections, and sharing of our strategic plan draft.
The highlight will be 3 student presentations from University of Delaware students describing the research they are doing using Doppler radar, MOTUS tracking, and other tools to make sense of migratory patterns and dependence on forest ecosystems. And 2 of the presentations feature Saw Whet Owls. Come and see the future of ornithology and photos of the some of the cutest owls around
Virginia Halterman, graduate student: “A local and regional spatial analysis of bird stopover distributions in the Great Lakes basin”
Forests in the Great Lakes basin provide essential stopover habitats for migratory birds. Given current and projected changes to the region’s land cover, it is important to understand how migratory bird stopover distributions reflect habitat availability. My project aims to increase the understanding of the role of finer-scale forest characteristics and landscape configuration on bird stopover densities. My collaborators and I are using Doppler weather radar data to measure bird stopover densities in the region. I will be discussing our efforts to investigate the role of patch area and fine-scale forest characteristics on stopover patterns. I will also be discussing how publicly-available LiDAR data can give us forest structure information across large areas. With our results we hope to highlight important stopover areas used by high densities of birds. Additionally, we hope to provide forest management information by investigating the relationships between different forest characteristics and stopover density.
Aaron Coolman, graduate student: “Spring is for Saw Whets”
Eli Hevalow, Senior Thesis: “Fall is for Saw Whets”
The meeting is held in person at Ashland Nature Center and is streamed online via YouTube Live. The in person meeting is open to everyone, but the YouTube Live presentation is for DOS members only.
Members in good standing will receive an email with the link to YouTube Live prior to the meeting. If you are not a member and would like to attend virtually, please consider joining DOS.
We look forward to seeing you soon!