Mike Burger,
Director of Conservation Science and Policy, Audubon New York
Mike is Audubon New York's chief scientist, responsible for providing a science-based foundation for all of the organization's programs. He oversees several of Audubon New York's conservation programs, including the Important Bird Areas program, grassland and shrubland bird conservation work with private landowners, and the forest stewardship program. Additionally, Mike coordinates the Atlantic Flyway Initiative, which is a framework for increased collaboration and conservation effectiveness across Audubon's network from Maine to Florida and into the Caribbean and Central and South America. Prior to coming to Audubon, Mike earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Michigan where he studied climatic and physiological determinants of bird ranges and was supported by a Department of Energy Global Change Fellowship. Mike earned a B.A. from Wittenberg University in Ohio.

Rob Clay
Senior Conservation Manager
Birdlife International
Rob is the Senior Conservation Manager for BirdLife International in the Americas, leading the development of BirdLife's conservation programs in the continental Americas. During 2006-2009 he oversaw the completion of the Americas IBA inventory, which culminated in the launch of an Americas-wide directory in 2010. Prior to working for the BirdLife Secretariat, he worked for Guyra Paraguay (the BirdLife Partner in Paraguay), where he coordinated the national IBA inventory. His interest in Neotropical birds and conservation began during an undergraduate expedition to Paraguay in 1992 and led to Ph.D. studies of manakins in Costa Rica and Panama. Since 1997, Rob has called Paraguay home, but spent two years in Ecuador when he first started working for the BirdLife Secretariat. Rob is author/co-author of over 50 publications about birds in Paraguay, including the first Spanish language field guide, an annotated checklist and an atlas of the birds of Paraguay.

Geoff Geupel
Port Reyes Bird Observatory

Walker Golder,
Deputy Director
Audubon North Carolina

Steve Hoffman,
Executive Director
Montana Audubon
After earning his Master's in Wildlife Ecology from Utah State University, Steve worked for 10 years as a Wildlife Biologist/Endangered Species Specialist for BLM and USFWS. He then founded HawkWatch International (HWI), a science/education nonprofit focusing on raptors. After 12 years growing HWI Steve became Audubon Pennsylvania's Director of Bird Conservation, focused on advancing the state's Important Bird Area (IBA) Program. Steve then moved to Bozeman, MT, to become Executive Director of the nonprofit Keystone Conservation. Since 2006, as Executive Director of Montana Audubon, Steve has worked enthusiastically to strengthen Montana's IBA program. Steve has published dozens of scientific papers on birds, coyotes and endangered species.

Andrea Jones
Director, Important Bird Areas
Audubon California
Since May 2006, Andrea has directed the Important Bird Area Program in California. Before joining Audubon California, Andrea worked at Massachusetts Audubon from 1993 to 2006 where she directed Important Bird Areas activities and the Coastal Waterbird Program. She also coordinated a grassland bird conservation program throughout New England. She received her M.S. in Wildlife Conservation /Ornithology and her B.S. in Wildlife Biology and Management from the University of Massachusetts. Her thesis work involved Grasshopper Sparrow metapopulation dynamics on small islands off the New England coast.

Dan Niven
Daniel Niven has served as Audubon's Senior Scientist for Bird Conservation. Dan collaborated with biologists from the USGS to analyze population trends of North American birds using CBC data, and uses this and related information to generate biodiversity indicators, State of the Birds reports, and to address conservation issues such as climate change. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, where he studied the effects of disturbance on the behavior, condition and population dynamics of Hooded Warblers during both the breeding and non-breeding seasons. He was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and has conducted extensive fieldwork on birds throughout the U.S. as well as in Mexico, Panama, Honduras, and Kenya. Before joining Audubon, Dan was the Monitoring and Assessment Coordinator for the Critical Trends Assessment Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey where he developed indicators to assess long-term patterns in the condition of natural ecosystems. In 2000 Dan became the first Director of Audubon's Important Bird Program.

Terry Rich,
Partners in Flight National Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Terry received a BS in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and an MS in Zoology from Idaho State University. He worked as a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for 20 years in Colorado, Idaho and North Dakota. In 2000, Terry accepted the position of Partners in Flight National Coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He has participated in many projects that involve conservation planning at large geographic scales for multiple species. His top current priority is to increase conservation action in Mexico to implement the PIF Tri-National Vision.

Tim Cullinan, Audubon Washington

Lincoln Fishpool, BirdLife International

Brian Harrington, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences

Scott Yaich, Ducks Unlimited