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Ornithology Field Methods-Geese andWaterfowl (EESC 483)

Term: 2021-2022 - SUMMER SESSION A

Faculty

Kathleen Schnaars

Please email me and we can arrange a convenient time for both of us to 'chat'. I usually respond in 24 hours or less, except weekends/breaks.

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AND A BIT ABOUT ME -

I was born in Brooklyn, NY and loved escaping to my brother’s dairy farm in the northern Adirondacks. I was excited when an opportunity to move to North Dakota presented itself.

As a field ecologist, I have broad interests in birds, plants and insects. I conduct research on the recovery of habitat, severely degraded by destructive snow goose foraging and I oversee the Hudson Bay Project recovery ecology program. I am also interested in declines in aerial insectivores and their population trends, behavior and niche requirements, at and beyond the published range. I am currently examining this by providing and monitoring artificial nest boxes to tree swallows north of tree line and monitoring insect population trends through the breeding season. I have involved students from the US and Canada in my research projects. I also involve the local communities in Churchill, Manitoba and Jamestown, ND, in the projects as citizen scientists.

I am a member of the National Wildlife Society, ND Chapter of The Wildlife Society, North American Arctic Goose Venture, Beta-Beta-Beta Honor Society, Entomological Society of America and advisor to the UJ Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society. I am a Primary Investigator with The Hudson Bay Project and I conduct research each summer in Churchill, Manitoba. I have brought student researchers every summer to participate in the exciting investigations of the Hudson Bay Project. Let me know if you want to join me!

Description

Students will participate in banding waterfowl such as Ross's Geese, lesser Snow Geese, Canada Geese and Common Eiders, approved by BBL, USFWS and CWS. There will be opportunities to partner with Canadian agencies conducting research on nesting densities, peak hatch, survival rates, etc. Eider and Lesser Snow Goose research will be conducted at LaPerouse Bay field reserach station on Cape Churchill Peninsula. Students will be part of a long-term study (>50 yrs) of Lesser Snow Geese and Common Eiders. Course may be repeated. Prerequisite or Corequisite: EESC 484. Offered: Summer