Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) – The convention will take place from Dec. 11 to 14 on the Hotel Captain Cook in Dena’ina
Ełnena/Anchorage, Alaska.
A particular night occasion of the Alaska Bird Conference, the Art and Conservation Night will likely be held on Dec. 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. on the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, and can embody two displays, an artist market, a silent public sale, no-host bar, and light-weight refreshments.
The theme of the convention is “Bring Birds Back,” which was chosen to focus on the large-scale decline of practically 3 billion birds between 1970 and 2017 in accordance with a examine printed in Science (Rosenberg et al. 2019).
Dr. Pete Marra, a co-author of this examine and Professor of Biology and the Environment at Georgetown University, will current data associated to this matter throughout his keynote speech on the convention.
In addition, Subhankar Banerjee, professor of Art and Ecology and director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities on the University of New Mexico will current a keynote speech that focuses on two centuries of artwork, science, and conservation initiatives surrounding shorebirds.
A 3rd speaker, Tuula Hollmen, a scientist on the Alaska SeaLife Center and the University of Alaska Fairbanks will make clear mechanisms of adaptation and resilience in Arctic marine birds and the way this data may help help conservation.
Besides these keynote speeches, there will likely be three full days of shorter displays by hen researchers, conservationists, social scientists, and educators from throughout Alaska on subjects like co-stewardship, human-dimensions analysis, contaminants, genetics, migration, inhabitants biology, rural priorities for birds, or subsistence harvest.
A particular session titled Indigenous Partnership in Bird Co-Stewardship will likely be held on the final day (Thursday, Dec. 14) of the convention.
This session is supposed to foster hen analysis and conservation that’s inclusive of Indigenous and subsistence communities in Alaska.
Topics will embody birds as meals and cultural assets in Alaska Native and subsistence communities, native
and Traditional information about birds, and precedence subjects in hen analysis and conservation from the native views.
One presenter, Liliana Naves, may even be offered with the 2023 Isleib Award in the course of the Thursday evening banquet for her work with the Division of Subsistence of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Her work blends pure and social sciences with a give attention to hen harvest evaluation, native and conventional information, and outreach and schooling.
Presentations:
● The Epic Migrations of Birds: Peter Marra will take us on a hemispheric journey to find
the unknown migrations of the birds, explaining the latest applied sciences used for monitoring
and the latest efforts to avoid wasting and shield these marvelous species.
● Capturing the Lives of Alaska’s Birds: Gerrit Vyn, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Producer and a
Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers will share sights,
sounds, and spectacles of birdlife in Alaska—together with the biggest seabird colonies on St.
George Island, an intimate second on the nest of a Bar-tailed Godwit, and the large
migration of King Eiders as they head north to breed.
See the Alaska Bird Conference website for the complete schedule of occasions, together with plenary audio system and oral and poster displays. People may also register on-line.
The convention and neighborhood occasion have been organized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Migratory Bird Management program with important contributions and logistical help from different U.S. Fish and Wildlife packages; U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Science Center; Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Threatened, Endangered, and Diversity Program; Bureau of Ocean Energy and Management; Audubon Alaska; Alaska Biological Research Associates, Inc., and others.
