Monitoring Birds in the Native Habitats: From Olympia to Borneo

In person at Temple Beth Hafiloh, 201 8th Avenue SE, Olympia. Social time at 6:30 pm, program at 7 pm.
Or register here to join the program at 7 pm on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WCZ4hTTkRQGgTJ9RsiLGGA

Alison Styring was always interested in animals. As a college student, when she first saw Crimson Rosellas and Galahs at bird feeders in Australia, she knew that she would return to that part of the world several times. Indeed, her graduate studies eventually led her to study woodpecker ecology and their response to logging in Malaysia. That work culminated in long-term relationships with both local and international researchers working in that part of the world. She continues to collaborate with that research team primarily in Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. In this talk, Styring will review some of the work that she has done both in Evergreen’s campus forest and in Borneo, including acoustic monitoring of birds with small programmable recorders that can be left in the field.
Dr. Alison Styring has been teaching at The Evergreen State College for over 20 years. During her first year at Evergreen, she worked with Dr. Dylan Fischer, PhD, to establish long-term forest and wildlife monitoring plots in Evergreen’s campus forest. Ever since that time, she has worked with Evergreen students to monitor and study the biology of birds on campus, focusing on the community ecology and long-term population trends of resident and migratory birds. Styring obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University in 2002; and her BA in Biology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1994.