Recorded November 5, 2022
COA Science Conference 2022
Long Island Sound: Restaurant for Birds
The Zoom conference was held live Nov 5, 2022.
This second annual COA Science Conference focuses on the birds in and around Long Island Sound throughout the year and the ecosystem and food web that support them: The Long Island Sound Restaurant, as we see it. In addition to several expert presentations on birds, scholars also discuss marine life and the LIS environment.
Listen and learn during this informative and engaging series of presentations about current bird-related research and scientific activities related to birds and the habitats of the Long Island Sound area.
Organized by Connecticut Ornithological Association President Tom Robben.
| Topic | Presenter | |
| 1 | Preliminaries | Angela Dimmitt, COA, Co-host |
| 2 | Welcome | Tom Robben, COA President, Host |
| 3 | Overview | John Waldman, Queens College Big changes in LIS Long Island Sound |
| 4 | Environment & Habitats | Mary Beth Decker, Yale Univ. Describing LIS environment and habitats |
| FOOD WEB: | ||
| 5 | Plankton | George McManus, Univ. of Connecticut LIS Plankton: Types, species, seasonal changes, and long-term changes |
| 6 | Invertebrates | Gail Hartnett, Univ. of New Haven LIS Invertebrates: Types, species, seasonal changes, and long-term changes |
| 7 | Fish | David Molnar, CT DEEP LIS Fish: Types, species, seasonal changes, and long-term changes |
| 8 | Marine Mammals | Mary Ellen Mateleska, Mystic Aquarium LIS Marine Mammals: Types, species, seasonal changes, and long-term changes |
| 9 | Break for lunch | |
| 10 | Birds | Chris Wood, COA Norwalk Harbor nesting birds and changes over time |
| 11 | Birds | Steve Broker, COA CBC Christmas Bird Counts and trends in birds in LIS |
| 12 | Birds | Breanne Ellis, CAS The Osprey Project in and around LIS |
| 13 | Introducing UConn students | Chris Elphick, Univ. of Connecticut |
| 14 | Birds | Frank Gigliotti, Univ. of Connecticut The saltmarsh restoration work at Stratford Great Meadows |
| 15 | Birds | Carlin Eswarakumar, Univ. of Connecticut Diets of seaside and saltmarsh sparrows around LIS |
| 16 | Birds | Will DeMott, Univ. of Connecticut New methods to measure effects of wind and date on Tree Swallow migration near LIS |
| 17 | Panel and final thoughts |
COA’s Birds and the Environment Science Conference 2021
Recorded November 6, 2021
Recorded
Saturday, November 6, 2021. 9:30 am – 3:15 pm
Birds and the Environment Science Conference – Online
This Connecticut Ornithological Association Birding Conference was held online via Zoom. It featured 17 short talks, each about 15 minutes in length, on bird science topics and projects conducted by a wide spectrum of birders, from professional ornithologists to young students.
The table below will provide more information on the presenters and their topics as well as timings to be able to easily locate each one in the video.
Additional video recordings of COA Zoom Workshops are available under the Members Only menu tab for members who log in.
| PRESENTERS | TOPICS | START TIMES |
| Tom Robben, COA | Introduction | 00:00:00 |
| Judy Richardson, CAS Birdcraft | Bird Banding at Birdcraft | 00:11:14 |
| From Marvelwood School Aiden Cherniske Sebastian Killin Ashley Wilkins Brennan Wilkins Laurie Doss | Community Partnerships That Benefit Birds: Purple Martin Natal Dispersal in the Northwest Corner. | 00:27:12 |
| Laurie Doss, Marvelwood School | Inspiring the Next Generation of Conservationists: Birds & Project-Based Learning on Skiff Mountain, Kent, CT. | 00:51:40 |
| Min Huang, CT DEEP | Conservation Planning for Wintering Black Ducks: Full Life Cycle Models. | 01:08:01 |
| Steve Broker, COA | Overviews of Ongoing Research Topics: (1) The Connecticut Christmas Bird Count; (2) Field Studies. | 01:35:10 |
| Chris Elphick, UConn | CT Bird Atlas and More | 01:50:16 |
| Samantha Apgar, UConn | How Tidal Marsh Birds Cope with Nest Flooding during High Tides | 02:08:50 |
| Franco Gigliotti, UCONN | Saltmarsh Restoration and Its Consequences for Coastal Marsh Birds | 02:25:00 |
| LUNCH BREAK | BREAK for 5 minutes | 02:44:45 |
| Andrew Dasinger, COA | North American Breeding Bird Survey Transects and Results, Since 1960 | 02:49:20 |
| Morgan Tingley, UCLA | How and Why Some Birds are Better at Coping with Climate Change | 03:10:42 |
| Preston Lust, Princeton | Nocturnal Migration and Arrival Dates: Recordings, Methods, Results | 03:26:40 |
| Patrick Comins, CAS & Tom Robben, COA | Summer Bird Counts: Old and New | 03:41:10 |
| Chris Wood, COA | Wood Warbler Population and Habitat Trend: Observations From a Connecticut Summer Bird Count | 04:11:58 |
| Margaret Rubega, UConn | Tern Conservation in Long Island Sound | 04:24:33 |
| Brian Hoover, Chapman Univ. | Plankton, Fish & Birds: Marine Food Webs in a Changing World | 04:55:40 |
| Cody Limber, Yale Univ. | Extinctions, Genetics and Future Possibilities | 05:33:51 |
| Tom Robben, COA | Other Projects Summarized: CBC Data Mining, Gulf of Maine Research, Sabine’s Gulls Tracking, Shearwater Tracking, etc. | 05:47:15 |