| | Accession Number | 5004413 |
| | Title | Technical Assistance to FWS Recovery Teams, the Ornithological Council, the North |
| | American Colonial Waterbird Conservation Plan, and to graduate student committees |
| | Project Description | The Investigator was appointed to the FWSs Northeastern Roseate Tern Recovery Team (NRTRT) |
| | and to chair the NRTRTs Technical Working Group (TWG), he has been appointed as a |
| | representative to the Ornithological Council, and he also serves on the Advisory Committee to the |
| | North American Colonial Waterbird Conservation Plan and the thesis committees of several |
| | graduate students. In these various capacities (especially in his capacity as Chair of the TWG), |
| | he receives numerous requests to perform specific technical tasks, to attend meetings, to review |
| | documents, and to provide other technical assistance to these groups, organizations, and |
| | students. The purpose of this project is to provide the time and support needed by the Investigator |
| | to attend appropriate meetings and to perform the tasks that USGS wishes to support. |
| | Keywords | colonial waterbirds, conservation plan, habitat modification, impact assessment, long-term |
| | monitoring, long-term research, metapopulation dynamics, ornithological council, population |
| | recovery, population restoration, recovery team, roseate tern, species-at-risk, technical |
| | assistance, |
| | Principal | Jeffrey A Spendelow, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Jeff_Spendelow@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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