Greetings folks,
Save the date for the 2020 Willamette Valley Bird Symposium! Please join us
in bringing together professionals, students, and amateurs to celebrate
birds.
Registration is now open! General registration includes lunch. Costs are
$15 for students/educators and $20 for the general public ending January
10th. Register ASAP - space is limited and day-of admission not guaranteed.
To register, visit https://willamettevalleybirds.org/.
<https://willamettevalleybirds.org/>
This year's plenary speaker is NOPPADOL PAOTHONG
<http://www.npnaturephotography.com/>. He is a nature and conservation
photographer and an associate fellow with the International League of
Conservation Photographers. In addition, he is a staff wildlife
photographer with the Missouri Department of Conservation
<http://mdc.mo.gov/> and contributes his images and stories to its
high-quality publication, Missouri Conservationist
<http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/>, Xplor <https://mdc.mo.gov/xplor>, and many
others. For over 15 years, he has been documenting rare and endangered
species, primarily grassland grouse and their fragile habitat, and has
published two large-format national award-winning books, Save the Last Dance
(2012) and Sage Grouse, Icon of the West (2017). His images appear
regularly in many national publications, such as Audubon, Nature
Conservancy, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, and many more.
This event will be held January 25th, 2020 at the CH2M HILL Alumni Center
on the Oregon State University campus. For more details on the scientific
program, please visit https://willamettevalleybirds.org/.
Please circulate this email to anyone else that may be interested. We hope
to see you there!
Thank you,
The WVBS Planning Committee
