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Friends & Colleagues;

I am pleased to announce that the 2014 Ohio Avian Research Conference will once again be hosted by Denison University in Granville, Ohio on Saturday, October 18th. Stay tuned to this site for further developments: 
http://tuckercasey.wix.com/aacri-birds/&!oarc2014/cd8o

Last year's conference was a great success thanks to our many presenters and participants, and I think this year's conference will be an even bigger success for several reasons.

•First and foremost this year's conference will be an official state-level conference of the American Ornithologist's Union (AOU). In fact, Ohio has the honor of hosting the first state-level AOU conference. This year's Ohio Avian Research Conference will be used as a model to implement similar state or regional AOU conferences across North America.

•Secondly we are working the Ohio Young Birders Club to highlight more first-hand bird research by high school students. This includes a specially designated oral presentation, and hopefully more poster presentations as well.

•Last year over $300 was awarded in student presentation awards to undergraduate and graduate presenters be several different organizations, including the Ohio Biological Survey (OBS). OBS has again committed to offering another student presentation award this year. I am also working to establish an endowed presentation award that will be awarded annually as part of this conference. This award will honor an Ohio ornithologist who's previous grad students are considered some of the most successful and leading ornithologists in academia and conservation today (more details will be forthcoming).

•The keynote presenter this year is Dr. Bernadette Plair of the College of Mt. St. Joseph, in Cincinnati, and the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) at the Cincinnati Zoo. Dr. Plair will be presenting her work on restoring Blue-&-Gold Macaw's back to her native Trinidad, where they had been formerly extirpated.

•It is my hope that this year's conference will offer an even greater diversity of bird-related research topics.

A general call for presentations (both poster & oral) will be sent out in July. However, if you'd like to propose an oral presentation in the meantime please contact me directly with a title and abstract.

Early registration for the conference will open in August and run through the end of September.

The goal in organizing the Ohio Avian Research Conference is to promote the idea that direct involvement and support of scientific research at multiple levels is necessary for furthering our knowledge of birds for the benefit of their conservation.

This conference is an opportunity to bring together professional academic and agency researchers with students and citizen scientists to share their work with one another and with interested audiences seeking new information & potentially new opportunities.

In addition to the AOU the Ohio Avian Research Conference is supported by Kaufman Field Guides and Columbus Audubon, and is endorsed by the USFWS in Ohio as well as the Migratory Bird Division of the USFWS.  We are seeking additional support for this conference so if your organization would like to help sponsor this event please contact me.  Financial support for the conference helps keep this event affordable, especially for students.  Display tables for organizations and vendors will be available for purchase as well once registration opens. Thank you for your time and I hope you'll consider joining me in October for a fun event and a great opportunity to learn more about birds from the individuals who are making new discoveries about them everyday. Sincerely, Casey Tucker[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]                                          
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