FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] UT Student First BBC Graduate Lecture

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lesley Bulluck, a graduate student who is working towards a doctorate degree in 
the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee, 
has been named recipient of the Stephen M. Russell Graduate Lectureship to be 
presented Tuesday, April 20, at East Tennessee State Unviersity - Bristol 
Center.  The lecture is sponsored and hosted by the Bristol Bird Club.
She will speak on "The distribution of Golden-winged Warblers in eastern 
Tennessee and an overview of future goals."
Her husband will present a lecture starting at 8 p.m. and she will follow.

The lectures are open and free to birders and the public.  The BBC will begin 
gathering about 7:15 p.m.  The ETSU-Bristol Center is located about 4 miles 
north of the Bristol Motor Speedway on the Volunteer Parkway (U.S.11E) in 
Bristol, TN.  There is one main building to enter and you will see directions 
inside.

The club's named lecture honors Dr. Russell, who was a charter member and 
founder of the Bristol Bird Club while a high school student at Abingdon, VA in 
1950.  He is retired (Emeritus),  from teaching and research in ecology and 
evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona and is well known as an 
authority on the birds of Sonora. He is Curator Emeritus of The University of 
Arizona's Bird Collection .  He is an honorary member of the famous Cooper 
Ornithological Society and a past presidents.  He served with distinction on 
committees and boards for the American Ornithologists' Union (including the 
office of secretary). 

Lesley Bulluck earned a B.S. in May 2000 in Ecology and Environmental Biology 
with a Chemistry Minor and Sustainable Development Concentration at Appalachian 
State University, Boone, NC.  Her M.S. was in ecology from Miami University of 
Ohio in May 2003. 

At UT-Knoxville she is developing habitat and population viability models for 
Golden-winged Warblers and develop a management plan to create quality early 
successional habitat. Her field data has been collected in the Cumberland 
Mountains of east Tennessee.  She has used color banding of and blood 
collection from Golden-winged Warblers and searched for the bird's nest in the 
Cumberlands.

The lecture presentation will begin at 8 p.m. with her husband, Jason Bulluck, 
as an invited speaker on the subject "The importance of  southern Appalachian 
wetlands to breeding birds: the role of beaver."   He earned a M. S. in 
Biology, with GIS concentration in May 2003 at Appalachian State University.   
He has focused on the study of avian ecology with an emphasis on avian habitat 
conservation. He will answer questions. 

Lesley Bulluck's Stephen M. Russell Graduate Lectureship will follow Jason's 
presentation.  

The BBC, a chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, is named for Dr. 
Russell.   He served on boards and committees of the Organization of Tropical 
Studies, Western Bird Banding Association,  Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 
Southwestern Research Station.  He received his B.S. from Virginia Tech and a 
Ph.D. from LSU under Dr. George H. Lowery.  His dissertation studied the 
ecology and distribution of the birds of British Honduras (Belize), which was 
published as the first A.O.U. Ornithological Monopgraph.  He taught six years 
at LSU-New Orleans before joining the faculty at the Unviersity of Arizona in 
1964.  He retired from Arizona in 1996. 

The lectures are open to the public and area faculty may offer extra credit for 
any students who attend.  The BBC will collect a roll of those students if you 
will notify us.  

Wallace Coffey, Bristol Bird Club, Stephen M. Russell Chapter,  Bristol, TN.

















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