Chapter Programs

Presenter: Lynette Williams Duman Lynette will discuss site history of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with a focus on historic stressors and restoration methods. She will then discuss her ongoing research regarding wetland restoration and conversion in the Sac-SJ Delta and Suisun Marsh with an emphasis on food web processes and waterbird responses to landscape change. Lynette… Read More »History of the Sacrament-San Joaquin Delta with a focus on historic stressors and restoration methods

As people continue to expand their territory, wild animals find themselves more and more impacted by people. This can result in difficult situations for the wild animals who don't know how to navigate an increasingly urbanized landscape. Presented by a wildlife field rescuer with real life photos and stories about helping our wild neighbors. Sometimes… Read More »Surviving the Urban Jungle, A Talk on Human/Wildlife Conflict – Presented by Michele Dodge

A look at the largest wetland on the planet, its natural history and ecology. Doc Nancy is an Adjunct Professor of biology at Northern Arizona University and Columbia College, Sonora as well as a Visiting Lecturer for the University of Virginia Semester At Sea Program where she taught biology around the world. Doc Nancy was… Read More »Beyond the Amazon: The Pantanal of Brazil – Presented by Nancy E. Muleady-Mecham, Ph.D.

Presenter: Chris Torres, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Biological Science, UOP Sixty six (66) million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth and killed more than 75% of all life on the planet. That turned out to be a really good day for birds, who went on to become the world’s most diverse group of terrestrial… Read More »Birds across the end Cretaceous mass extinction

Speaker: Karan Odom Most bird enthusiasts are familiar with the intricate, beautiful songs of male songbirds. However, it is less well known that females of many bird species also sing. While male songbirds sing to attract mates or defend territories, the reasons that females sing can be much broader, including competing for year-round resources for… Read More »Listening to Nature’s Divas: What Female Songsters Tell Us

The Delta is a place of connections where rivers meet each other, where freshwater meets salt water, where ocean fish come inland, where birds from the north come for the winter, and where birds from the south come to breed. The Delta is also a place of complexity. How water interacts with land and forms… Read More »Birds of the California Delta by Aaron Haiman