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Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival November 13 - 17, 2002 -- Brevard County, Florida A celebration of birds and wildlife. |
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Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival November 13 - 17, 2002 -- Brevard County, Florida A celebration of birds and wildlife. |
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| Fred Anderka |Bruce Anderson | Gian Basili | Shane Belson | Ron Bielefeld | Wes Biggs | W. Boyd Blihovde | Jeff Bouton |Dave Breininger | Buck and Linda Cooper | Jim Davis | Jim Duby | Marc Epstein | Marty Folk | Warren Frost | David Goodwin | Deborah Green | Roger P Grimshaw| Mike Hannisian | Larry Harvey | Ross Hinkle | Carroll Holland | Sandy Huff | Suzanne Kennedy| Sarah Linney| Lorne K. Malo | Larry Manfredi | Michael McDowell | Michael McMillian | Anne Moroz | Steve Nesbitt| Kathleen O'Malley | Jane Provancha | Kurt Radamaker | Tami Robinson | Paul A. Schmalzer | Mark D. Sees | Lee F. Snyder | John Stiner | Doug Stuckey | Joanna Taylor| Jeffrey V. Wells | Dorn Whitmore | Joanne Williams | Glen E. Woolfenden | Maria Zondervan |
FRED ANDERKA
Fred joined the Canadian Wildlife Service in 1967 and for 18 years designed radio tracking equipment, attaching it to a variety of animals such as polar bears, grizzly bears, caribou, musk oxen, etc and then tracked these animals for extended periods. When the Canadian Wildlife Service was downsized in 1984, he continued his work to facilitate wildlife research by starting Holohil Systems Ltd. Since 1984 they have been able to continue to expand their contribution to many more research projects on a diverse variety of species all over the world. With the emphasis to decrease the size of transmitters, it is allowing the study of much smaller animals. This has made a significant contribution in avian, herp. and chiropteran research.top
BRUCE ANDERSON
Bruce Anderson has lived in Florida for 45 years and is the coauthor of The Birdlife of Florida, a regional editor for Florida for North American Birds and for the Florida Ornithological Society Field Observation Committee report in the Florida Field Naturalist. He is a past president of the Florida Ornithological Society and a former secretary of the FOS Records Committee.top
DR. GIAN BASILI
Gian Basili is the new Project Director for the Lake Apopka Restoration Program for the St. Johns River Water Management District. He came to St. Johns from the Florida Audubon Society where he was the Director of Ornithology from 1997 – 1999. Although Gian's professional focus has switched from birds to the acquisition of environmentally sensitive lands, he continues to be active in Florida birding and bird conservation projects including the restoration of the former Zellwood Farms of the North Shore of Lake Apopka. Dr. Basili is a Judge for the Festival Birding Competition.top
SHANE BELSON
Shane Belson is a biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Office of Environmental Services. He manages three Mitigation Parks in central Florida, where he is involved in prescribed fire and habitat restoration operations. He was formerly the Florida Park Service biologist at Tosohatchee State Reserve in Christmas. Shane was born and raised in Titusville and graduated from the University of Central Florida. Currently, he lives in St. Cloud with his wife and two dogs.top
RON BIELEFELD
Ron is a waterfowl biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Born in Wisconsin, Ron received his Bachelor of Science degree from University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, and Masters of Science degree from Louisiana State University. He worked for Indiana Department of Natural Resources for four years as state waterfowl biologist and for the last seven years, as a waterfowl biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Since coming to Florida his work has centered on mottled duck research and conservation.top
WES BIGGS
Wes started birding as a youngster in Rochester N.Y. His family moved to St. Petersburg in 1962 and the birding got much better. He has been involved in the conservation movement since junior high school, and in every aspect of Florida ornithology since his early teens. As a lister he has seen more species of birds in Florida than anyone. On the scientific front, he has been involved with the two largest ornithological projects in Florida history, as a member of several Dry Tortugas banding expeditions in the 1960's and 1970's, and as the state coordinator of the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project in the 1980's and 1990's. In the field of eco-tourism, he has headed up Florida Nature Tours since 1990, specializing in birding tours in Florida and the American Tropics. If it has feathers and lives in Florida, Wes can find it. Join him for some fun field trips! Wes Biggs is a Judge for the Festival Birding Competition.top
W. BOYD BLIHOVDE
Boyd Blihovde has a B.S. and a M.S. in Biology from the University of Central Florida, where he worked for reknowned sea turtle researcher, Dr. Lew Ehrhart for seven years (both through undergraduate work and graduate work). Boyd gained a tremendous respect for research and field biology while working for Dr. Ehrhart. During his time at UCF, he published short notes, gave many presentations, and wrote several papers that are in preparation. He received his Masters degree in Biology, studying the Florida gopher frog (Rana capito) as a student of Dr. Ehrhart's.
Boyd has worked in every major level of government (county, state, and federal). He has also worked for a consultant company. Although most of the research he has done focuses on herpetofauna, he is extremely interested in all aspects of vertebrate zoology, fire ecology, and wildlife management. Presently Boyd is a Park Biologist at the Wekiva Basin GEOpark.top
JEFF BOUTON
Jeff Bouton has studied raptors extensively throughout the country since 1984. His studies began in New York at Braddock Bay Raptor Research, where he worked in the hawk banding blinds for 9 years and served as Director of Research and Education. Other studies here included Owl banding, and winter ecology studies on Rough-legged Hawks, Snowy Owls, and other winter wanderers. He spent 5 seasons working in Cape May, NJ counting hawks for the Cape May Bird Observatory and banding raptors here as well. His studies carried him west to work with the Colorado Division of Wildlife's Peregrine Falcon Recovery Team. and north to Alaska where he conducted raptor nesting surveys in the 13 million acre Wrangell/St. Elias National Park & Preserve, did survey work through Denali Park, and was a consultant to various researchers throughout the state. He also led tours professionally throughout the state to places like Nome, Gambell, St. Paul Island, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He has lived in Port Charlotte, FL for 3 years now and has seen and learned much about the FL specialty species in this time.top
DAVE BREININGER
Dave Breininger is a senior ecologist for Dynamac Corporation, the NASA Life Sciences support contract for Kennedy Space Center. His interests are focused on habitat management, habitat characteristics, and demography combining field data with remote sensing, GIS, population models and landscape trajectories. Dave is currently investigating demography of 200 color banded Florida scrub jay families in Brevard and Indian River counties.top
BUCK AND LINDA COOPER
Buck and Linda were the 1998 recipients of Florida Audubon's distinguished Allan Cruickshank Memorial Award for their extensive conservation work in the state of Florida. They were resident naturalists at Street Audubon Nature Center in Winter Haven for 13 years. Recently retired, they now have even more time to spend with the natural world. They are acknowledged experts in the identification of Florida butterflies using binoculars only. This non-consumptive approach to butterflying is being utilized by more and more butterfly enthusiasts throughout the nation. At the recent North American Butterfly Association's (NABA) biennial Conference they gave an identification workshop on the 65 skippers of Florida to a large group from all over the United States and Canada.DR. JIM DAVIS
Dr Jim Davis has studied bird behavior for twenty years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and went on to do a post-doc at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. His scientific contributions have focused on various aspects of kingfisher behavior including territoriality, vocal communication, and mating systems. Over the past 15 years, Jim has traveled to different parts of the world to observe and write about bird behavior. In 1997, he started the Australian edition of Interpretive Birding Bulletin and, in 2000, the North American edition. A limited supply of the Interpretive Birding Bulletins will be available for purchase at the meeting. Check out the IBB website at: www.ibirding.com
Rescheduled for 2003
A letter from Dr. Jim Davistop
JIM DUBY
Jim Duby is Principle Coordinator, Seminole County Natural Lands. After attending classes at Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida, Jim graduated from Rollins College with a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Studies. He served as Program Coordinator of Natural Sciences at the Orlando Science Center for eleven years, then moved to Seminole County in 1993 as a biologist in the Development Review Division. In 1995, Jim was transferred to the Comprehensive Planning Division to oversee the management of the County’s Natural Lands, including the educational programs, partnerships and resource management activities. Jim is a native Floridian and now lives in Debary with his wife and two sons.top
MARC EPSTEIN
Marc is a professionally Certified Wildlife Biologist. For more than 20 years he has served in positions which include Wildlife Research Biologist for the SC Wildlife and Marine Resource Department, Florida Statewide Wetland Wildlife Coordinator and Area Manager, North Florida Coastal Ecosystem Coordinator, Endangered Species Section for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He currently serves as the Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Marc is also a professional photographer with published work in numerous national and international books and magazines, including Florida Wildlife, Florida Sportsman, Field and Stream Salt Water Sportsman and more. Some of his photography may be viewed at www.marcepstein.homestead.com.top
MARTY FOLK
Marty Folk is a wildlife biologist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He works with all aspects regarding the release and monitoring of Whooping Cranes in Central Florida. Marty did his graduate work on Mid-continent Sandhill Cranes in the North Platte River Valley of Nebraska. So, he's had the good fortune to have studied the most abundant crane species on earth (sandhill crane) and the most endangered one (whooping crane). He keeps up with the cranes by means of a tiny radio transmitter attached to a leg band. The cranes can be tracked for up to 3 miles on land and up to 40 miles from air craft. Marty spends 50 to 75 % of his time in the field with the cranes.top
WARREN FROST
Warren Frost has lived and birded in the Titusville area for the past 11 years. An avid birder since his youth, Warren has spent many years birding around the United States. He is a long time member of the American Birding Association and the Indian River Audubon Society.top
DAVID GOODWIN
Dave started his birding career in St. Petersburg in the late 1960's and has extensive experience throughout the state of Florida and elsewhere in the U.S. As a middle school teacher, Dave conducts summer nature camps in the Tampa Bay area. As past president of The Florida Ornithological Society and as a regional coordinator for the Florida Breeding Bird Atlas project he has been involved in various tours for Florida Nature Tours for many years in South Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Dave is in the elite group of birders who have seen over 400 species of birds in Florida. He is currently in forth place. A day in the field with Dave will open your eyes. Dave is a judge for the Festival Birding Competition.top
DEBORAH GREEN
Natural history writer Deborah Green, a Floridian since 1953, grew up in Gainesville. She earned her Ph.D. in Entomology from University of California, Berkeley, and worked six years as an entomologist, before becoming a biology teacher and environmental educator in the Orlando area. Her books through Sabal Press (www.sabalpress.com) are: Wekiwa Springs State Park Habitat Tour (1994, 2000), Watching Wildlife in the Wekiva River Basin (1999, 2002) and now Paradise Preserve : Natural History of Canaveral National Seashore and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (2002).top
ROGER P. GRIMSHAW
Roger says he's always been a birder, but his interested was sharpened by a visit to Mexico and Guatemala in 1978. He enjoys travel, and has visited many parts of the US as well as Central and South America. He has lived in Central Florida (Seminole County) for twenty years, where he participates in various bird surveys, and is active in conservation. He likes to see birders using their skills in scientific endeavors which can be used for conservation purposes. He is a past president of Seminole Audubon Society. Raptors are a particular interest, but ask him about "his" painted buntings! eMail.top
MIKE HANNISIAN
Mike Hannisian is a retired Professor of English with a bachelor’s degree in theoretical mathematics, a master’s degree in linguistics, and a law degree. He currently is the Executive Director of The Valley Land Fund, a land trust in deep south Texas which is perhaps best known for its biennial wildlife photo contests (the richest in the world). Mike has been birding since 1970, and since the mid 1970s has taught birding workshops, and led and organized national and international birding tours, always with an emphasis upon instruction. Before moving to Texas in 2001, he was a long-time Associate Naturalist with New Jersey Audubon Society’s (NJAS) Cape May Bird Observatory (CMBO) where his duties include leading indoor/outdoor birding workshops and reviewing nature oriented media. Mike also writes for various magazines and newspapers, including WildBird, Birding, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Texas Birds, The Rio Grande Valley Nature Magazine, and The Valley Morning Star.top
LARRY HARVEY
Larry Harvey’s official duties for the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute are the development, oversight, and administration of the organization’s Special Projects and Programs. A product of the Brevard County Public School system (graduate of Titusville High), he has a B.S. in Physics and Oceanography from the United States Naval Academy and a M.S. in Applied Physics (Underwater Acoustics) from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.Larry enjoyed a twenty-year career as a Naval Aviator, piloting a variety of carrier-based aircraft during deployments to all of the world’s oceans. Among the number of awards and designations he received was his selection, in 1985, as a Navy Astronaut Candidate. Larry was assigned as an Associate Professor at the University of Florida when he retired from the Navy and began a second career with SeaWorld Orlando. During his five-year tenure as the Special Projects Coordinator within the Education Department, he developed programs, curriculum, innovative partnerships, and oversaw the expansion of the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute into Florida. In his current position with Hubbs-SeaWorld, Larry is uniquely positioned to interface between the marine science and space science research communities.
Larry’s responsibilities include the continued support of the Hubbs-SeaWorld expansion into Brevard County including the capital campaign to build and operate a Coastal Research Laboratory within the Archie Carr NWR; the establishment and operation of strategic partnerships; government affairs; direct coordination with NASA and the aerospace community; submission of grant requests; collaboration, whenever possible, in research; and most importantly, the inclusion of strong education components in all of the Florida Center projects.
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ROSS HINKLE
Ross Hinkle is Chief Scientist for Dynamac Corporation at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Ross has specialized in the development and application of ecological monitoring and research activities at KSC for the past 18 years. He is Chair of the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Selection and Management Committee and a Senior Ecologist serving on the Ecological Society of America's Board of Professional Certification.top
CARROLL HOLLAND
Carroll Holland started seriously birding in 1959 with Allan Cruickshank and was a team leader for Christmas Bird Counts from 1961 through 1971. He has birded all continents except Antarctica, including pelagic birding for four years at sea on the USNS Vandenberg, and has taught school children the rudiments of birding. Carroll was trained to teach birding classes by Allan Cruickshank and has conducted Beginning and Intermediate Birding Seminars for many years. He is a long time member of the Board of Directors of the Indian River Audubon Society. Carroll is a judge for the Festival Birding Competition.top
SANDY HUFF
Sandy Huff's down-home, anecdotal writing style has appeared in more than 800 magazines and newspapers, including Canoe and Kayak Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. A Florida native and resident of Safety Harbor, she has traveled the length and breadth of the state, paddling every major waterway and numerous side streams, and has 25 years experience as a canoe instructor. This book is a compilation of Huff's all-time favorite trips, and it includes contributions by six guest writers, all expert paddlers.
A prize winning outdoor and travel writer, Sandy Huff has written over 800 articles that have appeared in over 104 publications, including kayaking with killer whales in Canoe and Kayak Magazine, ravens in Saturday Evening Post, and the secrets of the alligators in Highlights for Children.
An avid birder (who still can't tell the female wrens apart), Sandy Huff has watched our feathered friends around the world, chasing rare hoatzin birds in the Amazon, brilliant hummingbirds in Peru, giant egrets in Zimbabwe, and even the Moscovy ducks waddling around the frozen canals of Moscow. She keeps watch over the Alligator Lake wading bird colony (all 16 wading birds are represented, including 3 nests of rare reddish egrets). She takes a yearly trip to the Dry Tortugas every May to watch the migrating birds. Next summer she is leading an art and writing workshop to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico that will include two stops to egret colonies.top
SUZANNE KENNEDY
Keynote speaker Suzanne Kennedy is an Environmental Specialist with the Brevard County Natural Resources Management Office. She plans, develops, and implements natural resource conservation projects with an emphasis on endangered and threatened species, plant ecology, and natural areas and habitat management strategies. Current projects include the Brevard County Natural Communities 2000-2001 Mapping Project, Rare Plant Populations of Brevard Inventory, Monitoring, and Database, developing the Significant Environmental Areas Map and Ordinance, and coordinating the Conservation Working Group, and the Non-native Invasive Plant Control Program and developing a Non-native Invasive Plants Ordinance. She received a Master of Science degree in Biological Sciences in 1998 from Florida International University, in Miami, Florida and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences with a minor in Tropical Botany in 1993 also from Florida International University.top
SARAH LINNEY
Sarah Linney is the Field Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy's Cape Canaveral Scrub Jay Project. The main purpose of the project is to monitor the demographics of the Florida Scrub Jay population on the Cape Canaveral AFS. Her primary responsibilities include year-round field research; organizing, coordinating, and overseeing all field activities; and updating and maintaining research databases. Sarah holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Native of N. C., moved to Florida in 1992. Active member of the Indian River Audubon Society, where she currently holds the Office of Secretary.top
LORNE K. MALO
Lorne K. Malo is a Senior Regulatory Scientist with the St. Johns River Water Management District. He also works part-time for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection conducting bird surveys on the Wekiva, St. Johns, and Tomoka Aquatic Preserves. Lorne is an avid birder who organizes bird surveys with local volunteers on St. Johns River Water Management District properties. He is also the compiler for the Audubon Society's Econlockhatchee Christmas Bird Count. Additionally, Lorne has worked with black bears, alligators, estuarine fish, small mammals, gopher tortoises, and assorted snakes.top
LARRY MANFREDI
Larry Manfredi was born and raised in Miami Florida. He became interested in birding at the age of six, when his mother gave him his very first book on birds, Marjorie Stuart's "Birds Around Us". He has maintained a life list since the age of eight. Larry has birded most of the birding hotspots of North America (Attu Island Alaska, Southern Arizona, South Texas, California, Maine and the Dry Tortugas, to name a few), as well as many of the larger Caribbean islands, including the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominica, St. Lucia and the Dominican Republic. He has also birded Europe, travelling to France, Switzerland and Italy.
Larry contributed to Bill Pranty's popular book "A Birder's Guide to Florida" and wrote the Miami Area section for one of the new Metropolitan Birdfinding Guides published by the American Birding Association. On a recent trip to the Dominican Republic with P. William Smith, a bird not previously seen on Hispaniola was discovered. Many birders might remember the Striped Headed Tanager that showed up in Larry's yard in 1992. More than 400 people came to see that amazing vagrant.
Having lived in South Florida for more than 30 years, Larry is familiar with locations of all the Florida specialties. Through many years in the field, he has gained knowledge of the local flora and fauna. He knows that many birdwatchers enjoy looking for alligators, crocodiles, manatees, butterflies and other interesting animals, in addition to finding birds. www.southfloridabirding.com/top
MICHAEL McDOWELL
Michael McDowell hails from Middleton, Wisconsin where he lives with his wife, Rebecca. They are both avid birders and spend much of their free time exploring Wisconsin’s diverse bird haunts. Their favorite birding spot is Pleasant Branch Conservancy – a 500-acre natural area directly across the street from their home. This past spring migration, Michael added 22 previously unrecorded bird species to the faunal inventory. According to Eagle Optics representative, Ron Windingstad, "Mike is an extremely good digiscoper, birder, astronomer and field trip leader here in Wisconsin."top
MIKE McMILLIAN
Native Floridian, Michael McMillian, is a wildlife biologist for the Archbold Biological Station in Highlands County, Florida. He has a Bachelors Degree from University of Florida and a Master’s Degree from University of West Florida. In the past, Mike has worked for the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and the Forest Service in California. Working in the field as a wildlife biologist since 1986, Mike’s major ornithological interests include behavioral ecology of raptors, nesting ecology and predation of birds by birds.top
ANNE MOROZ
Anne Moroz has been an active volunteer with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center's endangered species program since 1984 when her partner, Kathleen O'Malley, began working there. Anne has helped with countless emergency responses at Patuxent and has helped raise endangered Puerto Rican parrots, endangered quail, bald eagles, whooping cranes, and sandhill cranes. She's been on hand to help the Patuxent captive bird colonies through unexpected snowstorms, emergency power outages, water system failures, and more sick crane treatments than anyone at Patuxent can count. Anne is always happy to relate the story of her first crane chick experience, when Kathy brought an ill sandhill chick home to give it intensive care. It recovered in their bathtub with round-the-clock care; "Tubby" is still living and breeding at Patuxent today.top
KATHLEEN O'MALLEY
Kathleen O'Malley has worked at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center since 1984, and has been in charge of rearing whooping cranes since then. She has probably raised more whooping cranes than any other single person in the world. Since two of the birds she raised successfully fledged their own chick in Florida this year, she feels she can truly say she has grandchildren living in Florida.top
STEVE NESBITT
Steve Nesbitt has been a wildlife biologist with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission since 1971. Steve is a member of the Whooping Crane Recovery Team and has been involved with the Southeastern Whooping Crane Reintroduction Program since its inception in 1980. In addition to whooping cranes Steve has been involved with projects dealing with brown pelicans, red-cockaded woodpeckers, white ibis, armadillos, Bachman's sparrow, brown-headed nuthatch, pine warbler, the Florida duck, bald eagles, Florida sandhill cranes, and wading bird surveys in Florida.top
JANE PROVANCHA
Jane is currently employed by the Dynamac Corporation as a Program Manager and Conservation Group Leader for the Environmental Support Contract at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida
She has over 20 years of experience working in coastal habitats. She received her bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences with an emphasis in zoology in 1978 and as a contractor for NASA for 18 years she conducted many research projects on seagrass, water quality, manatees, sea turtles, etc. She has been a sea turtle and marine mammal stranding and salvage network biologist and coordinator for northern Brevard County for over 20 years.
From 1987 to 1993, she was president of her own small business providing technical ecological services, employed and managed many biologists on contracts in the Port Canaveral area predominantly related to dredging impacts on manatees, whales and sea turtles. She is a member of several technical-working groups related to sea turtles and manatees and is a committee member of the IUCN, International Union for the Conservation of Nature.top
KURT RADAMAKER
Kurt started birding in his native California when he was a young boy, and has traveled throughout the Western Hemisphere and Europe. He is best known as an expert on the birds of the Mexican state of Baja California, having seen more species there than anyone else. He has written a number of articles on the birds of Baja and was editor and production manager for The Euphoria, a scientific journal of field ornithology on the birds of Mexico. Kurt and his wife Cindy, (who is also a birder) moved to Orlando in April 1998. In no time they both began making outstanding discoveries in a number of areas throughout Central Florida. In Dec. 1998 Kurt and Wes Biggs started the Zellwood Christmas bird count, and set the record for the most species ever found on a noncoastal count. A day in the field with Kurt is sure to yield some surprises!top
TAMI ROBINSON
Tami Robinson has been working with the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Program since April 1998. Prior to the EEL Program Tami worked for the Brevard County Office of Natural Resources as the Endangered Species Coordinator. She received her Bachelor degree in Biology from the University of Central Florida. Her responsibilities with the EEL Program include development and implementation of management plans for the north region lands acquired through the EEL Program. Other responsibilities include grant proposal development and administration as well as planning and coordinating environmental education programs. Upon completion of the Management and Education Center at the Enchanted Forest Sanctuary (proposed completion May 2002) Ms. Robinson will be in charge of the Centers day to day operations and management.top
PAUL A. SCHMALZER
Paul A. Schmalzer is a plant ecologist with the Dynamac Corporation at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, where he has worked since 1982. His current research interests include: effects of fire on vegetation and soils, restoration of scrub ecosystems, and distribution, structure, composition, and dynamics of barrier island plant communities. He serves on the Environmentally Endangered Lands Selection and Management Committee for Brevard County, Florida.top
MARK D. SEES
A native Floridian, Mark has worked for Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan as an Environmental Scientist, the St. John's River Water Management District as a Land Management Specialist and currently works for the City of Orlando as a Wetlands Analyst. He now manages the Orlando Wetlands Park for the City of Orlando.top
LEE F. SNYDER
Lee F. Snyder is a writer and an award winning commercial photographer whose credits include nine book titles and numerous articles with photo credits in many major national publications. His work has taken him throughout the world photographing and writing about birds. A New Englander by birth, a Floridian by choice, he has made St. Petersburg his home for the past twenty-one years. Lee is a judge for the Festival Birding Competition.top
JOHN STINER
John Steiner is Resources Management at Canaveral National Seashore. His responsibilities include protecting and interpreting the many archeological sites contained within the Seashore. Although he obtained a Masters Degree in Biology from Western Michigan University, he fosters a great love for history, which he cultivated as a child when he would ride his bike 15 miles to the Gettysburg Battlefield and crawl over every nook and cranny of Devil's Den. Come join John on a bus tour entitled "Mosquito Lagoon: Glimpse into the Past" to examine several archeological sites and the Eldora statehouse, one of the last remnants of an 1800's Florida waterway community. Investigate the lives of Native Americans that once lived here and hardy settlers who braved the wilds of Florida before the creation of air conditioning and mosquito control.top
DOUG STUCKEY
Doug Stuckey is a veteran birder and long time member of the Indian River Audubon Society who has lived in Titusville for more than 34 years. He has spent 31 of those years birding in Brevard County, participating in Christmas Bird Counts for more than 25 years. Doug was the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge CBC Compiler for 11 years and has led field trips for over 16 years. He has birded most of the United States (44 states) and has a North American Life List of 552 species.top
JOANNA TAYLOR
Joanna Taylor is the public use specialist at Pelican Island and Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuges. Currently, she manages volunteer program and public use activities on the refuges. Joanna began her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1988 at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center working with the whooping crane captive propagation research group. Joanna worked closely with the captive whooping flock and other endangered avian flocks for 8 years and assisted in the research and cryopreservation of genetic material.top
DR. JEFFREY V. WELLS
Jeffrey Wells is the National Director of Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society. Dr. Wells oversees the Important Bird Areas program, WatchList initiatives and other citizen-science and conservation projects and programs. He is an active birder and a member of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Sapsucker’s birding team, winners of the World Series of Birding in 2001 and 2002. Dr. Wells completed the first book on Important Bird Areas in North America when he published Important Bird Areas in New York State in 1998. Jeff received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in avian ecology from Cornell University, based in part on extensive work on the ecology and demographics of grassland birds in his native state of Maine. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers and popular articles on birds, citizen-science and bird conservation, including several family accounts co-authored with his wife Allison, in the recently published Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior.top
DORN WHITMORE
Dorn Whitmore, Supervisory Ranger, has worked at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge for more than 20 years. Over the span of his career he has lectured on a variety of natural history topics and led countless birding tours. For the most of the 1990's, Dorn was charged with the acquisition and development of the new sea turtle refuge – Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge. Dorn also oversaw the effort to expand and protect the nation's first National Wildlife Refuge at Pelican Island.top
JOANNE WILLIAMS
Joanne Williams is a widely traveled freelance photographer specializing in wildlife and nature. She has photographed in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, the Netherlands, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Barbados, the Caribbean Islands, Dry Tortugas, The Pribilofs, Alaska, Nova Scotia, San Juan Is. and many areas of the United States especially extensive work in the Everglades and most of Florida. All forms of wildlife and nature are subjects of Joanne's work--the avian community being a favorite.
Her work may be seen in many publications such as the Museum of Natural History magazine, Paddler's Guide to The Sunshine State, Birder's World magazine, Living Planet, six covers for Florida Audubon's magazine The Naturalist, New York Times, Bird Watcher's Digest, and The World and I, to name a few. Central Florida's Visitor's Center and Convention Bureau featured her images on the cover and within their promotional brochure entitled "Celebrate Nature" and has used her work for their national advertising campaign, as have the Kissimmee/St. Cloud Visitors & Convention Bureau for 2002. Joanne is an active member of NANPA (North American Nature Photographer's Assoc.), FOWA (Florida Outdoor Writer's Assoc.), and a contributing photographer to VIREO (Visual Resources for Ornithology) at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
National Audubon has linked their website to Joanne's website gallery, The Everglades. To date, the entire website has 700 images within its five galleries. (All images available for purchase). To view her website, go to: www.joannewilliamsphoto.com or www.natureandwildlife.com (a data-based run website searchable by word). There are approximately 36,000 35mm originals in her library with 1,900 70mm reproduction-quality duplicates available. Her work is also listed in the Green Book, as well as having over 100 Netimages in the AGPix on-line catalog. She may be reached at (954) 941-7901 or e-mail at: Joanne@joannewilliamsphoto.com,or jojo1W@aol.com, Mailing address is: 2237 NE. 30thSt. Lighthouse Point, Fl. 33064DR. GLEN E. WOOLFENDEN
Research Associate at Archbold Biological Station, has studied the jays at Archbold Station for over 30 years. His research has resulted in many papers and an acclaimed book concerning these jays. Dr. Woolfendon will discuss the natural history and demography of the Florida Scrub Jay. His pioneering research laid a foundation for other collaborative research on aspects of the jay's biology.
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MARIA ZONDERVAN
Maria Zondervan is a wildlife biologist with the St. Johns River Water Management District. She is currently involved with projects involving burrowing owls, scrub jays, gopher tortoises, bald eagles, alligators, red-cockaded woodpeckers, and eastern blue birds. She is also involved with the District's prescribed burning program. Maria is an active member of the Florida Chapter of The Wildlife Society and is a graduate from the University of Florida's School of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.
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