February 2015 Meeting

Tue, February 3, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Blue Spruce County Park
Speaker: D.J. McNeil

Description

D.J. McNeil is a second-year graduate student at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania working under the guidance of Dr. Jeff Larkin. He completed his undergraduate degree in Fisheries and Wildlife at the Michigan State University where his research primarily focused on monitoring the response of passerine birds to habitat management, focusing particularly on Golden-winged Warbler densities in aspen timber harvests.

His current work at IUP is aimed at studying Golden-winged Warbler response to private land management strategies where he explores nesting success, territory attributes, and post-fledging habitat-use. The biology program at IUP hosts an array of ecological research spanning everywhere from systematics and evolution to habitat-requirements and management. McNeil and Larkinï¿½s work, facilitated by IUPï¿½s biology department, are a deliberate attempt to collect/analyze data that will directly contribute to the recovery of the Golden-winged Warbler and the entire suite of birds that require the habitat created through private forest land management.