Thursday, May 21, 7:00 p.m.

“Tracking the Wild in Flight”

by Dr. Frank Fogarty

Dr. Fogarty will tell us about the Motus network, a collaborative, worldwide effort to better understand wildlife movement. To date, it has been used in 34 countries to track the movement of more than 400 species using over 2400 stations, including two around Humboldt Bay. Dr. Frank Fogarty will discuss some of the highlights of the Motus program, its local application here in the Humboldt Bay region, and his lab's work using it to better understand Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) homerange and migration between California and Oregon.

Dr. Frank Fogarty is an Assistant Professor of Applied Avian Ecology in the Wildlife Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. His lab studies how birds and bird communities respond to human activity, restoration, and potential disturbances. Much of his recent work has focused on Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) ecology, including their migration and responses to wildfire and timber harvest.

This program was recorded. You can watch the presentation on Zoom here.

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Photo at left of BRAY fledgling, by Frank Fogarty.

Thursday, April 16, at 7:00 p.m. 

“Home Sweet Habitat:

Testing Adaptive Habitat Selection in Breeding Swainson's Hawks and Fostering Community-based Raptor Research.”

 by Elizabeth Meisman 

This month’s fascinating lecture will include information about the longest-running raptor projects in North America, the Butte Valley Swainson’s Hawk project. Meisman will share insights gained from her graduate research and the ecology of these remarkable birds. Additionally, she’ll discuss how community members can get involved in monitoring local raptors while contributing to meaningful, community-based research.

Meisman is a wildlife biologist working across California on a variety of ecology, conservation, and long-term monitoring projects. She is currently an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Dr. Matt Johnson’s Habitat Ecology Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her master’s research aims to investigate habitat selection of Swainson's Hawks breeding in the Butte Valley, testing the adaptive habitat selection hypothesis using the project's long-term monitoring dataset. 

This program was recorded. You may watch it at this address:

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Join us Thursday, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. for

“Tales from a Real Cave Man”

Presented by Dick LaForge

LaForge fell in love with caving right after high school and took regular excursions from Connecticut into the back hills of Virginia. After moving west, he explored, mapped, and photographed caves in the Southwest, Mexico, Central America, and Borneo.

Dick will focus on Lechuguilla Cave, in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, and Bigfoot Cave, in the Marble Mountains Wilderness. Bigfoot Cave held the US cave depth record for three years in the late 1970s.

This program was recorded, and can be viewed on Zoom here.

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