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Stephen Brown received his PhD from Cornell University, and is currently Director of Shorebird Science at Manomet.
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Stephen Brown received his PhD from Cornell University, and is currently Director of Shorebird Science at Manomet.
He and his wife Metta McGarvey have conducted research on arctic shorebirds in both the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve for the past eight years.
About Stephen Brown
Director of Shorebird Science, Shorebird Recovery Project
As Manomet’s Director of Shorebird Science, Stephen Brown works on a wide variety of science and policy issues related to protecting this imperiled group of birds. Stephen was the lead author of the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, which brought together wildlife managers and policy makers from all 50 states to develop a coordinated strategy for restoring the declining populations of shorebirds. Stephen has an active research program in the Arctic, where his work helps to determine potential impacts of oil development on nesting shorebirds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. He helps coordinate a program to study and manage American Oystercatchers throughout the Atlantic Coast. He also helps organize the Shorebird Research Group of the Americas, which aims to determine the underlying causes of shorebird population declines.
Stephen received his doctorate from Cornell University, where he studied restoration of wetland bird habitats. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles on shorebirds and wetland management, and recently edited Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan Council, and is a member of the Society for Conservation Biology, the Society of Wetland Scientists, and the Waterbird Society.
About the Shorebird Recovery Project
Manomet’s Shorebird Recovery Project seeks to recover and sustain populations of shorebirds at the levels called for in the U.S. and Canadian Shorebird Conservation Plans. Our approach is built on the tripartite (“3-S”) pillars of Site-based Conservation action; building the Science Foundation for action; and explicit Success Measures to monitor progress. The Shorebird Recovery Project's site-based conservation is intrinsically linked to the work of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN), a voluntary coalition of hundreds of partners across the Hemisphere. WHSRN comprises 77 sites in 12 nations, protecting more than 22 million acres of key shorebird habitat. Staffing and operating WHSRN’s Executive Office is a long-term program of Manomet.
About the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Manomet’s commitment to sustainability recognizes the interdependence of human well-being and healthy natural systems. Our initiatives and projects focus on enabling people, communities, and businesses to measure, manage, and sustain natural systems and the wildlife and people dependent on them. Our work concentrates on climate change adaptation and mitigation, natural capital (the "free" services of ecosystems), wetlands for wildlife and people, and new energy. Learn more »