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Tune in for a virtual presentation delivered jointly by Diego Luna Quevedo and Nathan Senner.

DIEGO LUNA QUEVEDO - Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, Diego joined Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Program in 2009 as a Conservation Specialist in the WHSRN Executive Office. From his office in Santiago, Chile, Diego works to bring together partners in developing alliances and processes for effective conservation. In particular, he leads in the design and implementation of strategies and action plans for WHSRN sites, primarily in Latin America, including building capacity for good governance.

NATHAN SENNER - Dr. Nathan Senner moved all over the country as a child, but claims Alaska as “home.” That time in Alaska led Nathan to take field jobs working with biologists in the most remote corners of the state as a teenager, and ultimately to fall in love with long-distance migratory shorebirds. Nathan went on to earn his B.A. from Carleton College in 2004 and then spend the next year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow following the migration of Hudsonian Godwits from their breeding areas in Arctic Canada to their non-breeding sites at the southern tip of South America. Returning to the US, he began a PhD in 2007 with Dr. John Fitzpatrick at Cornell University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, investigating how global climate change was differentially impacting two Hudsonian Godwit breeding populations. From 2012 to 2015, Nathan continued his work with long-distance migratory shorebirds as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands with shorebird guru, Dr. Theunis Piersma. While in The Netherlands, Nathan worked to understand how Black-tailed Godwit migrations and breeding biology were being affected by the combination of global climate change and agricultural intensification. Then, from 2015-2018, Nathan had a post-doctoral position at the University of Montana with Dr. Zachary Cheviron. He has been a professor at the University of South Carolina since January 2019 where his research group focuses on the migration ecology and population dynamics of Hudsonian Godwits, Whimbrels, and Red Knots.