Call for Presentations
Now accepting presentation proposals! Non-traditional presentations, posters, and organized sessions that focus on the planning-implementing-evaluating components of conservation, rather than the methods-results-conclusions components of a traditional research presentation, are encouraged.
We welcome presentations and content on all bird species.
Deadline for Proposals (please no exceptions): July 25, 2014 at midnight ET.
Notification of Accepted Presentations: August 22, 2014
Required Submission of Registration by Presenters: September 5, 2014
Themes:
We encourage submissions that address any of the many facets of successful bird conservation or those that present their work within a well-developed strategy for achieving conservation goals. Submissions that address broader scales (e.g., State-, BCR-, regional-, or flyway-scale) will be given preference. Submissions addressing all approaches to bird conservation are welcome, but we ask all presenters to define the conservation goal that their project addresses and explain how their project helps achieve that goal, whether it is through management, restoration, education and communication, research, monitoring, policy action, program development, etc.
For example, based on the responses to our pre-conference survey some themes of particular interest with respect to Coordinated Monitoring include:
Submit a Presentation Proposal:
All presentation proposals (whether oral or poster) require a 350 word abstract, name and affiliation of authors. As part of the abstract, each submission should define the conservation goal their project addresses and explain how their project assists in achieving that goal. Submissions should also identify if they are part of an organized session (see below).
We welcome presentations and content on all bird species.
Deadline for Proposals (please no exceptions): July 25, 2014 at midnight ET.
Notification of Accepted Presentations: August 22, 2014
Required Submission of Registration by Presenters: September 5, 2014
Themes:
We encourage submissions that address any of the many facets of successful bird conservation or those that present their work within a well-developed strategy for achieving conservation goals. Submissions that address broader scales (e.g., State-, BCR-, regional-, or flyway-scale) will be given preference. Submissions addressing all approaches to bird conservation are welcome, but we ask all presenters to define the conservation goal that their project addresses and explain how their project helps achieve that goal, whether it is through management, restoration, education and communication, research, monitoring, policy action, program development, etc.
For example, based on the responses to our pre-conference survey some themes of particular interest with respect to Coordinated Monitoring include:
- Quantifying responses to management
- Habitat-specific protocols and partnerships
- Regional survey designs
- Quantifying responses to threats
- Regional bird data collection protocols
Submit a Presentation Proposal:
All presentation proposals (whether oral or poster) require a 350 word abstract, name and affiliation of authors. As part of the abstract, each submission should define the conservation goal their project addresses and explain how their project assists in achieving that goal. Submissions should also identify if they are part of an organized session (see below).
- Oral presentations. Oral presentations will be presented during the last day of the conference, May 9. We expect there to be at least 4 concurrent sessions at a time. Oral presentation slots will be 15 minutes in length, with 5 additional minutes for questions. We highly encourage those submitting oral presentations to collaborate with colleagues and submit an organized session proposal (see Call for Organized Sessions page). Preference will be given to oral presentations that contribute to cohesive, interdisciplinary, conservation-relevant sessions.
- Poster presentations. Poster presentations have some advantages over oral presentations. They give more people time to review your work and to interact with you than would an oral presentation. A designated time slot for poster presentations (during the evening of May 8) will be provided during which there will be no other sessions. Poster authors will be expected to be available for discussion during this time period. Posters on similar topics will be grouped together to promote discussions among presenters with similar interests.