Local Host Committee

Sarah Saunders, Chair

Co-chair, Student Presentation Awards, Travel & Caregiver Grants Committees

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Senior Manager of Quantitative Science, National Audubon Society

Sarah Saunders received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, where she studied Great Lakes Piping Plovers. As a postdoc at Michigan State University, she developed models for estimating monarch butterfly abundance throughout the annual cycle. Since coming to Audubon in 2018, Sarah has leveraged innovative quantitative approaches to inform conservation decision-making for birds across the Americas.

Local Host Committee Members