This committee is responsible for the administration and selection of student and postdoc travel grants and student presentation awards. The committee’s goal is to enable broader participation in ornithological conferences and events and to enrich the conference experience of those attending through the provisioning of feedback and the celebration of excellence.
Evan Adams, Co-chair
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Quantitative Ecologist; Biodiversity Research Institute
Evan studies the ecology of birds and bats, the distributions and movements of birds, the response of birds and bats to environmental change, the effects of contaminants on birds and bats, data synthesis, and conservation decision-making. He is the Quantitative Wildlife Ecology Research Lab (qwerl.org) at the Biodiversity Research Institute.
Sarah Saunders, Co-chair
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Senior Manager, Quantitative Science, National Audubon Society
Dr. Sarah Saunders is a senior manager of quantitative science at the National Audubon Society. Residing in Michigan, Sarah primarily works on projects focused on the Great Lakes region, including modeling occupancy, abundance, and population dynamics of marshbirds and waterbirds. Sarah received her Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 2015, where she studied the endangered Great Lakes piping plover population.
Sahas Barve, Co-chair
Chair, DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion) Travel Grants Committee
Member, Student Presentation Awards Committee
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Program Director of Avian Ecology, Archbold Biological Station
Sahas is an avian ecologist at Archbold Biological Station in Florida where he manages a long-term study of the threatened Florida Scrub-Jays. Sahas is broadly interested in the evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of birds. He loves Indian music and is an award-winning grilled cheese chef.
Pamela Yeh
Co-chair, DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion) Travel Grants Committee
Member, Student Presentation Awards Committee
Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Pamela Yeh is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Her research focuses on how populations evolve in novel environments, and she conducts work in both the field and the lab. In the field, she examines bird populations in urban and native habitats, with the goal of understanding how birds may be evolving differently in urban areas compared to native environments. In the lab, she examines how bacteria populations evolve in a range of drug combinations, with the ultimate goal of using evolutionary processes and phenomena to develop strategies to combat multi-drug resistant pathogens. Pamela directs UCLA’s Evolutionary Medicine program, as well as the UC-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Pathways to Ph.D.s: Ecological and Evolutionary Medicine program. In addition, she is actively involved in both public outreach for STEM education as well as in community-engaged research in the Los Angeles community.
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