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Check Harry Fuller's blog for a great summary of another fantastic
one day
symposium in Corvallis. The keynote speaker happened to be Susan Haig, the
first woman president of the AOU. She opened her talk by informing ignorami such
as I that there no longer is an American Ornithologist's Union. If you don't
believe
me check Wikipedia. Last year the AOU merged with the Cooper Onithological
Union and now operates as the American Orn. Society.
There is far more to Condors than I ever dreamed of. I guess one should
expect
a bird that matures almost as slowly as a human to have a great capacity for
learning
and personality developement. "Unmentored" juvenile Condors were breaking into
mountain cabins and tearing up the mattresses, among many other things I didn't
expect
to hear from the executive of one of the world's oldest and most august
scientific
organizations. But with the new name comes a new jizz. The AOU held annual
meetings
from the dawn of time, attended by its members, all professional ornithologists.
The one day symposium in Jan 2015 was the first regional symposium ever
sponsored
by the AOU, with inclusion of a very broad demographic in mind.The vast
majority of
research presented are masters projects by students at OSU. This year the
entire event
was planned and executed by students.
Did you know that the leading center of ornithological research in the
USA after
Cornell is OSU? Papers presented this time were by students in many different
schools.
There were many other interesting projects on display besides the oral
presentations.
The weather this weekend was not particularly conducive to outdoor
activity. Such is often the case the third Saturday of January. I am very glad
I went.
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