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Nice Plenary

Student Travel Awards

Student Presentation Awards

Events take place at the Sheraton Colonial excpet where noted

Thursday, 22 March: WOS Council Meeting and Ice-breaker Reception

12:00 p.m. - 6 p.m. - Registration desk open

1:00 - 5:00 p.m. - WOS Council meeting

6:00 p.m. - Ice-breaker Reception (cash bar)

Friday, 23 March: WOS Scientific Papers and Harvard Reception:

8:00 8:15 a.m. - Welcome and Schedule Overview

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. - First paper session

9:45 - 10:00 a.m. - Break

10:00 - 11:15 a.m. - Second paper session

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Poster session & lunch

1:00 - 2:15 p.m. - Third paper session

2:15 - 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 - 3:45 p.m. - Fourth paper session

4:00 - 4:45 p.m. - WOS business meeting

5:15 - 5:30 p.m. - Buses load for departure to Cambridge (box dinner provided on the busses)

5:30 p.m. - Buses depart for Cambridge

6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - Reception at Harvard Natural History Museum

7:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Margaret Morse Nice Lecture at Harvard Museum: P. L. Schwagmeyer and Douglas Mock, Not Exactly your "Nice" sparrow

9:00 - 9:30 p.m. - Buses depart for Sheraton Colonial Hotel

Saturday, 24 March: Mass Audubon Birders Meeting & WOS Symposium:

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. - Registration for Birder's Meeting

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. - Welcome and Introductions

8:45 - 9:30 a.m. - Stephen Brown - Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

9:30 - 10:15 a.m. - William Burt - Secret Marshes, Secret Birds

10:15 - 10:45 a.m. - Break & Vendors Displays

10:45 - 11:30 a.m. - Robert Askins - Conservation of Birds in Open Habitats in New England

11:30 - 12:15 p.m. - Kevin Karlson - Shorebirds by Impression: A Simpler Method of Field Identification

12:15 - 2:00 p.m. - Lunch, Vendors Displays & Book Signing

2:00 - 5:00 p.m. - WOS Radar Ornithology Symposium:

• Bill Evans, Comparison between acoustic and radar migration data
• Ron Larkin, Not everything on your radar is birds
• Dave Mizrahi, Flight patterns of migrating birds in the Appalachian Mountains and mid-Atlantic coastal plain, a comparison using portable X-band radar
• Sid Gauthreaux, The seasonal temporal pattern of Purple Martin roosting behavior in relation to latitude
• Rhonda Millikin, Avoidance of wind turbines by night migrating birds
• Michael Begier, Nocturnal movements of waterbirds along the North Carolina coast

5:30 - 6:00 p.m. - WOS Pesident's Reception for Council

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. - WOS Reception

7:00 - 9:30 p.m. - WOS Awards and Banquet