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,
Virginia 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 Virginia Society of Ornithology, 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, VA-TN.
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