Program Schedule

PROGRAM SCHEDULE /
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

The 7th Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group Meeting will consist of a Plenary Session each morning, four days of oral presentations (Symposiums), and one afternoon of poster presentation. Courses, workshops and complementary meetings will be held the previous day and during the days of the congress activity.

Here we put the overview of what will be this great event!

Please download the detailed General Scientific Program to know the day and time for your presentation, here:

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Our abstracts book is available, downloand it here

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CONFIRMED

DR. THEUNIS PIERSMA

Plenary session: November 14th

Expert in Shorebirds of Netherlands. Endowed Chair in Global Flyway Ecology, Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Netherland Institute of Sea REsearch (Royal NIOZ) and Professor at the University of Groningen. Winner in the year 2014 of the Prize Spinoza. He has extensive experience in habitat selection and distributional ecology, population and community ecology, evolutionary and molecular ecology, and evolutionary migration.

DR. GUY MORRISON

Plenary session: November 10th

Pioneer of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN). Thanks to Guy Morrison and Ken Ross, the Paracas National Reserve was included in the WHSRN as a site of regional importance. Guy Morrison's studies revealed the decline in many shorebird populations in the Western Hemisphere.

DR. NIGEL CLARK

Plenary session: November 11th

Expert in shorebirds of British Trust of Ornithology in the UK. Nigel has been involved with shorebirds for most of his life. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Wash Wader Ringing Group and is Coordinator of the UK Spoon-billed Sandpiper Support Group. He has just left his current position in the BTO after years of service for the conservation of shorebirds, where he managed a large series of projects in relation to the ecology of shorebirds in the United Kingdom.

LIC. PATRICIA GONZALEZ

Plenary session: November 13th

Conservation leader for over 20 years working with Shorebirds in Argentina. Coordinator of the Wetlands Program of the Inalafquen Foundation in San Antonio Oeste in Patagonia, Argentina. Expert in population ecology, especially of the subspecies of the Red knot (Calidris canutus rufa). Coordinator of the ICFC's Shorebird Program.

APPROVED SYMPOSIA

Shorebird studies in Peru.
Shorebirds Trophic Ecology.
Within-species differences in migration strategies.
Estimating Seasonal Survivorship in Shorebirds.
Improving habitat through management and good governance.
Tools for the conservation of migratory shorebird populations: Monitoring the general physical condition of individuals.
The Migratory Shorebird Project: Connecting communities of the Americas through climate-smart conservation science.
Community engagement for shorebirds conservation.
Biofilm feeding by shorebirds: Conservation implications.
Shorebirds in the Americas productive systems.