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 Stakeholder
Profile: Wildlife
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Wildlife
Trust works in the United States and worldwide to
empower local conservation scientists to protect
nature and safeguard wildlife health, ecosystem
health, and human health.
Activities/Projects:
| Principal
Investigator |
Title |
Start Date |
Stop Date |
Purpose |
| Scott Newman |
SeaNet:
Citizen-Scientist Seabird Health Monitoring |
3/2004 |
On-going |
This project aims, as
part of a larger SEANET effort from Nova Scotia
to Delaware, to develop a long-term monitoring
database in which seadbird mortality and demographic
information will be collected at specific
beaches in New Jersey and New York repeatedly
throughout the year in order to evaluate differential
bird deposition rates. |
The Jamaica Bay Institute (JBI) at Gateway National Recreation Area (GNRA), along with Wildlife Trust, Harbor Herons Subcommittee of the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service sponsored the Harbor Herons, Cormorants, and More - Current Research and Future Planning meeting, November 30 - December 1, 2006, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York. The 2-day gathering featured the Harbor Herons Sub-Committee Meeting, followed by sessions including Monitoring Methodology, Environmental Toxins, Bioindicators, and Habitat Quality, Colonial Waterbird Populations beyond Harbor Herons, Population Perspectives, and Double-crested Cormorants.
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Citations: Koontz, F.W., and Elbin, S.B. 1997. The recovery status
of grassland birds and their habitat relationships as
a guide for ecologically-based management of restored
grasslands at Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway National Recreation
Area. Preliminary report - year one. 12pp. (JABBERT #
127, RIC # 137).
Elbin, S.B. and F.W. Koontz. 1996. The recovery status
of grassland birds and their habitat relationships as
a guide for ecologically-based management of restored
grasslands at Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway National Recreation
Area, Brooklyn, New York. 1996 Field Season Progress Report
presented to the National Park Service, Fort Tilden, Staten
Island, NY. October 25, 1996.
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