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August 2003 -- American Association of Avian Veterinarians (AAAV) meeting in Pittsburgh. Gave a lecture on Avian UV vision.
August 2003 -- ASCEND program at the American Museum of Natural History. I presented a talk to high school kids where I talked about how I decided to become a scientist and also showed them some of my Postdoc research data on lory phylogeny.
August 2003 -- American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) Meeting in Champaign, Illinois. Presented my research data "Molecular Phylogeny of the lories (Loriinae: Psittaciformes): Unraveling an old Puzzle." Paper 122. (Abstract and program available as a downloadable PDF).
June 2003 -- Evolution Meeting in Chico, California. Presented my research data "Molecular Phylogeny of the Lories (Loriinae: Psittaciformes): Reworking an old Puzzle." (Program available as a downloadable PDF).
April 2002 -- bird watching field trip guide for the Arboretum Foundation's annual bird walk at the Seattle Arboretum.
Autumn Quarter 2001, Spring & Summer Quarters 2002 -- bird watching field trip guide for freshman biology students in the "Diversity of Life" series with the Biology Department at the University of Washington. All field trips were held at the Montlake Fill, on the UW campus, where we saw many beautiful birds.
August 2001 -- American Ornithologist's Union Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Presented one chapter of my dissertation research as a poster. Poster Title: "Seasonal changes of androgen receptor expression are correlated with breeding in a wild songird, the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)." (Thumbnail)
Summer 2001 -- Volunteer for Seattle Audubon Society's "Nature Camp" where I was a nature guide; showing birds and other animals to the kids.
May 2001 -- Canadian Parrot Symposium West (Vancouver, British Columbia). Invited Speaker: "Male or Female? Using modern technology to identify gender of birds." I also wrote a paper that was published under my pen-name in the Parrot Symposium Proceedings that can be downloaded and printed for your reference. (This is a 24 MB file).
December 2000 -- Seattle Audubon Society (Seattle, WA) "BirdWatch" Program speaker -- "Winter Adaptations in Local Birds."
November 2000 -- Seattle Audubon Society (Seattle, WA) "BirdWatch" ProgramBirding Guide at Greenlake for a group of High School students.
April 2000 -- Seattle Adubon Society (Seattle, WA) Birding Guide at the Montlake Fill for the general public for the Earth Day Celebration.
October 1999 -- American Lory Society National Symposium (San Diego, CA) -- "Terms of Endangerment: The Future of Wild Lories."
June 1999 -- Avicultural Society Of the Puget Sound (Seattle, WA) -- "Lories and Lorikeets: The Brush-tongued Parrots of the South Pacific Islands."
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