Luiza Figueira
MANTIQUEIRA BIRD OBSERVATORY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Luiza Figueira is a Brazilian biologist with a Master of Science in Ecology from the National Institute for Amazonian Research.Author: KBO
Luiza Figueira is a Brazilian biologist with a Master of Science in Ecology from the National Institute for Amazonian Research.
Pedro Martins
MANTIQUEIRA BIRD OBSERVATORY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Pedro Martins is an Brazilian ecologist with primary interest in statistics and bird population dynamics.
Sarahy Contreras Martinez, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA
Sarahy is a professor and researcher at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources-IMECBIO, University of Guadalajara-CUCSUR. The results of her projects are applied to the conservation, management, and restoration of bird habitats in subtropical temperate mountain forests.
Luis Morales
SAN PANCHO BIRD OBSERVATORY, DIRECTOR
Luis is a marine biologist with training in coral reef ecology who decided that birds were better elements of nature to connect people with nature. He has over 20 years of experience guiding nature tours and the last 12 years mostly birdwatching trips. Luis is currently the Director and co-founder of the San Pancho Bird Observatory, a conservation initiative born within the Western Working Group of Partners in Flight (PIF) in 2011.
Keith Larson, PhD
UMEÅ UNIVERSITY
Keith Larson has worked all over the world as a field biologist, working primarily with seabirds and migratory songbirds. During this time Keith developed excellent statistical and spatial analytical skills that he has applied to a diversity of projects.
Josée Rousseau, PhD Candidate
Point Blue Conservation Science’s Sierra Nevada team
Josée’s partnership with KBO began in 2004 after graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Starting as an intern for the Redwood Sciences Laboratory, her position led her to become the Humboldt Bay Bird Observatory Program Manager under the KBO umbrella.
She is a certified North American Banding Council (NABC) Trainer and holds a GIS and Remote Sensing Certificate from Humboldt State University, California.
Her expertise in GIS and database management allowed her to participate in several projects from archiving banding and point count data into the Avian Knowledge Network, to mapping offshore bird surveys and estimating their density. She also participated in several projects for the Western Hummingbird Partnership.
In 2015, Josée pursued a PhD at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, where she studied large-scale, year-round relationships between birds and their habitats. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, assessing the role of birds as indicators of pollinators.
Josée now works as an ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science’s Sierra Nevada team. Her work continues to focus on studying bird population dynamics across landscapes and their interactions with the environment, with the ultimate goal of improving conservation outcomes.
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Nathaniel Seavy, PhD
POINT BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE
Over the last two decades, Nat has worked on research projects in North America, Central America, Africa, and Hawaii. These projects have included research on the breeding biology of raptors and owls, habitat associations of passerine birds, population ecology and monitoring of Pacific seabirds, and avian demography. Nat’s dissertation research on the effects of fire and fuels management on bird communities was conducted at KBO.
Kristen Mancuso, PhD Candidate
UNIVERSITY of BRITISH COLUMBIA
Kristen Mancuso is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan and in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada. Her project aims to learn more about the migration ecology of the Yellow-breasted Chat and Gray Catbird. She is using geolocators, GPS tags, and hydrogen stable isotopes to link birds between summer breeding sites to overwintering sites. Kristen is also analyzing Yellow-breasted Chat feathers to assess stress levels and mercury contamination.
Frank Lospalluto
Frank is a field biologist who has been working closely with the Klamath Bird Observatory for over 16 years doing both spring breeding bird and fall migration surveys throughout the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion.
Frank leads field trips as part of KBO’s Community Education Program. He also leads trips for Rogue Valley Audubon, Southern Oregon Land Conservancy, and teaches classes through Siskiyou Field Institute. Frank writes the monthly field notes column for the RVAS Chat and covers the southern Oregon field notes for the state publication, Oregon Birds.
CJ Ralph, ScD
RESEARCH ADVISOR
CJ Ralph is a Research Wildlife Ecologist Emeritus at the USDA Forest Service’s Redwood Sciences Laboratory in Arcata, California, and a Faculty Associate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Humboldt State University.
CJ co-founded Point Reyes Bird Observatory (now Point Blue Conservation Science), the Costa Rica Bird Observatories in 1994, and, more recently, helped start the Klamath Bird Observatory.