[Bristol-Birds] BBC 2nd Annual Graduate Lectureship, Tue. 4/19

The Bristol Bird Club has chosen Brian Olsen of Virginia Tech for the  Stephen 
M. Russell Graduate Lectureship., Tuesday, April 19, at East Tennessee State 
Unviersity - Bristol Center at 7:30 p.m.  
The lecture is sponsored and hosted by the Bristol Bird Club.

He will speak on "Evolutionary Divergence in the Swamp Sparrow."

Olsen is a graduate student studying towards a doctorate degree in the 
Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State 
University at Blacksburg.

In 2001 he took a Bachelor of Science Zoology from Juniata College, Huntingdon, 
Pennsylvania, graduating Magna cum laude.

His studies at Virginia Tech focus on conducting research investigating the 
differences in morphology, demography, and behavior between the tidal and 
freshwater sub-species of the Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza georgiana. His graduate 
school responsibilities include teaching a formal course this semester - senior 
level Ornithology in the Graduate Education development Institute.

He has worked as an intern at Smithsonian National Zoological Park; Schuylkill 
Center for Environmental Education, Educator; Biodiversity Research Institute, 
Field Biologist; Loon Preservation Committee, Field Technician and Audubon 
Society of New Hampshire, Field Technician.

He presented a paper "Seasonal clutch size variation in Coastal Plain Swamp 
Sparrows: Physiological constraint or strategic adjustment?" at the 122nd 
stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. Quebéc City, QC.


His grants and scholarships have included:  Smithsonian Institution Graduate 
Fellow, Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife and the Maryland Ornithological 
Society.

He has published research in the Auk (journal of the American Ornithologists' 
Union) and several papers in The Journal of Ecological Research.

The lecture is 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. Areaa faculty may offer extra credit for any students who attend.  The 
BBC will collect a roll of those students if you will notify us.  

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). 

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 2004 honored lecture was Lesley Bulluck, a graduate student working towards 
a doctorate degree at the  University of Tennessee - Knoxville, studying 
Golden-winged Warblers.

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


















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