Societies & Partners Coordination Committee

The Societies and Partners Coordination Committee will facilitate the inclusion of required components of the annual meetings of our contributing societies and addressing the needs of partners at the conference. Societies and other partners should provide Sara Morris (see below) with any needs in the meeting program and/or facilities requirements as soon as possible and no later than January 1, 2020. Please include NAOC VII in the subject line of any emails.


Sara R. Morris | Chair

Professor, Canisius College, NY (U.S.A.)

Sara is a Professor of Biology and the interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. She has served the ornithological community in a variety of roles, including as Secretary of the Wilson Ornithological Society and American Ornithologists’ Union, President of the Wilson Ornithological Society, elected Council Member of the American Ornithological Society, Scientific Committee member for NAOC V and VI, and Steering Committee member for NAOC VI and VII. Since 1990, she has led the Appledore Island Migration Station in its study of passerine migration and stopover ecology in the Gulf of Maine. She also studies migration and flight calling behavior at the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory in New York. She has published in The Auk, The Condor, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, The Journal of Field Ornithology, The Journal of Avian Biology, Animal Behaviour, Hormones and Behavior, and Frontiers in Zoology.

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