Dear Friends and Colleagues;

For the past four years I have planned and organized a state-wide ornithological research conference here in Ohio to help promote the science of ornithology to a broader audience.  This conference brings together professional academics, citizen scientists, museum workers, agency and non-profit biologists, students and birders from all over Ohio to share the latest information with one another about their research work both locally and globally.

This will be the fifth consecutive year for the Ohio avian Research conference and I'd like to make it something special.  To that end I’ve recruited a special keynote presenter for this year’s conference. I’m happy to announce that Dr. Steven Beissinger, President of the American Ornithological Society (formerly AOU) will be this year’s keynote speaker. Dr. Beissinger earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Miami University of Ohio.

Dr. Beissinger has been recognized as a Fellow of the London Zoological Society and the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU), where he chaired the Conservation Committee and was elected as a councilor. In 2010 he received the William Brewster Award from the AOU for publication of the most meritorious body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere over the past decades.  He has served on the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology, National Academy of Sciences Committee for the Restoration of the Everglades, Board of Directors of the National Audubon Society, Marbled Murrelet Recovery Team, U.S. National Committee to the International Union of Biological Sciences, and U.S. National Committee of Diversitas.  He has served on the editoriall boards of Conservation Biology,Ecology and Ecology Letters.  Read more here:  https://tinyurl.com/n3fhju4

This year's conference will be held on Saturday, October 14th once again at Denison University in Granville. So please hold the date.  An official conference website, registration and more information will be forthcoming in the months ahead, with a call for presentations and abstracts in September.  We’ll be offering 30 minute or 15 minute time blocks for most presentations, however based on their success last year we’ll also be offering 5 minute speed round presentations for students, especially undergraduates and high school students.

In the meantime you can view the conference schedules for the past several conferences here:
2016: http://tuckercasey.wixsite.com/aacri-birds/oarc2016
2015: http://tuckercasey.wixsite.com/aacri-birds/oarc2015
2014: http://tuckercasey.wixsite.com/aacri-birds/oarc2014

If you, or your organization, would like a table for a display or to market items please do not hesitate to contact me between now and the end of September.

This will be an exciting conference, and I hope many of you will consider joining us for another great year of promoting and celebrating the science of birds.

See you in October!

Casey Tucker


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