Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Use of Banded Piping Plover Resight Reports

Description: It's really fun to find out when the piping plover that you saw was banded, where it spent the winter, and how many chicks it fledged last year. But that's just the barest beginning of what can be learned when everyone's sighting reports are pooled. Learn how researchers from Virginia Tech are analyzing these reports to gather information that can be used to inform conservation on the ground. 

Presentation Thursday, October 20th 

About the presenters: Dan Catlin is a Research Assistant Professor and quantitative ecologist at Virginia Tech who works on the conservation of threatened and endangered species. Dr. Catlin also earned his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, working with piping plovers on the Missouri River. He has been with the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program since 2004, managing and collaborating on various efforts, including the Missouri River piping plover and least tern project, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response, the sea-level rise project, and the Long Island project. Dan Gibson is a post-doctoral fellow who comes to the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program from the University of Nevada, Reno, where his dissertation focused on assessing how greater sage-grouse behaviorally and demographically respond to environmental change. Learn more about the Virginia Tech Shorebird Program. 

Presentation details:

The presentation will take place on Thursday, October, 20th at 2:00 pm (EST), and will last for one hour. Extra time has been scheduled to allow for questions. 

To join the webinar, please follow this link, and dial into the teleconference line:

• Teleconference number: 866-762-5634 (toll free)
• Passcode: 5866227