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2nd Breeding Bird Atlas Program Coordinator Robert S. Mulvihill Bird Banding: http://www.powdermillarc.org Academic Training MS Biology 1993. Indiana University of Pennsylvania Since 1983, Bob has served as a research ornithologist at Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh’s biological field station Powdermill Nature Reserve. Much of his work and research has centered on the Reserve's internationally renowned bird banding program. He has published more than 30 papers in leading international peer-reviewed journals of ornithology and ecology, on topics ranging from molt biology and flight morphology to migration timing and nesting ecology. A major ongoing study (since 1996) is an investigation into the effects of water and habitat quality on nesting Louisiana Waterthrush, both on the species' breeding grounds in Pennsylvania and its wintering grounds in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. The waterthrush study has been a collaborative effort between Mulvihill and colleagues from East Stroudsburg University, The Pennsylvania State University, and, most recently, the National Aviary. Bob served as a Regional Coordinator for the first Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas (1983–1989) and authored twenty of the species accounts that appeared in the 1992 publication The Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania. Currently, he is the Project Coordinator and Editor for the 2nd Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas (2nd PBBA; 2004–2008). The 2nd PBBA is a joint project of the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, with principal funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's State Wildlife Grants program and additional funding from Pennsylvania's Wild Resource Conservation Program. The 2nd PBBA is a mostly volunteer-driven effort that already has provided unprecedented amounts of data and, consequently, greatly increased knowledge, about the state's breeding birds. In a span of just five years (2004–2008), more than 3,000 volunteers contributed over 700,000 field observations of more than 216 breeding bird species from 4,937 survey blocks across the length and breadth of Pennsylvania. Comprehensive data analysis and writing and publication of the book is scheduled for 2009 and 2010. The final published results of the 2nd PBBA will be an essential reference for those interested in or charged with the task of managing land and other resources in Pennsylvania to support important bird conservation objectives well into the future. In addition to the 2nd PBBA, Mulvihill is a co-editor and contributing author of a special publication of the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences entitled Avian Ecology and Conservation: A Pennsylvania Focus with National Implications, which is planned for publication in 2009. Mulvihill has served as a Scientific Adviser to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Project NestWatch) and the Pennsylvania Audubon Society (Important Bird Areas and other survey-based initiatives). He is a member of the Ornithological Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey and the Rusty Blackbird International Technical Working Group based at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. He is also a Council Member of the Wilson Ornithological Society and an Official Trainer for the North American Banding Council. In 2008 Bob was awarded the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania's W. E. Clyde Todd Award. This annual award is presented to an individual in recognition of outstanding effort to further the cause of conservation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
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mulvihill@pabirdatlas.org