Join the Audubon Society of Rhode Island for the second annual Avian Research Symposium! Last year's event featured researchers from across the northeast and provided attendees a broad understanding of the bird conservation work occurring across our region. This year's event will be bigger and better!
The symposium will feature over 25 researchers, including Lights Out Connecticut Co-Chairs Meredith Barges and Craig Repasz, presenting on topics ranging from birds and renewable energy to the impacts of climate change on bird populations, as well as a keynote address by Carl Safina. The goal of the symposium is to help bridge the gap between scientists and the general public regarding what we know about bird populations, how they are changing, and what work is being done to conserve them.
Last year's event sold out in a matter of days, so don't miss your opportunity to attend. The registration fee covers attendance to the event, coffee and snacks throughout the day and lunch. An optional guided bird walk at 7 am is also available to all participants.
Where: Salve Regina University, 36 Ochre Point Ave, Newport, RI
When: Sunday, February 4, 8am - 4pm
Download the full event presentation schedule here! (subject to change)
About Keynote Speaker Carl Safina
Carl Safina’s writing about the living world has won a MacArthur “genius” prize, Pew, and Guggenheim Fellowships; book awards from Lannan, Orion, and the National Academies; and the John Burroughs, James Beard, and George Rabb medals. His seabird studies earned a PhD in ecology from Rutgers; he then spent a decade working to ban high-seas drift nets and to overhaul U.S. fishing policy. These days his focus is writing and speaking. Safina is now the first Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University (where he formerly co-chaired the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science), and he runs the not-for-profit Safina Center. He hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean. His writing appears in The New York Times, TIME, Audubon, and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, CNN.com, and elsewhere. He is author of the classic book, Song for the Blue Ocean. Carl’s 11th book, Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, WhatHumans Believe, was published in October 2023. He lives on Long Island, New York with his wife Patricia and their dogs and feathered friends.