Full-time students who are members of one of the participating ornithological societies may apply for a Travel Award to help defray expenses (travel and lodging) of attending the meeting. Some gratis student memberships w ill be awarded, especially to students that are not U.S. or Canadian residents. Eligible students (see below), both member and nonmember, may also apply for a Presentation Award. Students graduating after 1 Jan 2002 are still eligible for either award.

To compete for a Travel Award and/or a Presentation Award, students must submit materials to the Student Awards Committee (guidelines below), as well as submit a standard abstract and application to the Scientific Program Chair to receive a place on the program. Application deadline for all materials is 3 May 2002.

As with Travel Awards, the student must present the paper or poster and be first author to be considered for a Presentation Award. Each student competing for a Presentation Award will receive a free banquet ticket. Students in symposia preceding the normal meeting days (25 - 28 Sep) and with talks longer than 15 min are ineligible for Presentation Awards. Applicants for Travel Awards must submit 15 copies of the following in this order, collated and stapled:

(1) expanded abstract that is printed double-spaced with 12-point font, 3-page maximum including references, tables, and figures;

(2 ) 1-page curriculum vitae;

(3) detailed listing of anticipated expenses (transportation and lodging only) in U.S. dollars; and,

(4) list of ornithological societies of which the student is presently a member.

The expanded abstract should state objectives/hypotheses, methods, major results, and scientific significance, and it should identify the contribution as an oral or poster presentation. Students applying for a Travel Award are automatically considered for a Presentation Award. Students applying only for a Presentation Award must submit 6 copies of the standard abstract, 1-page curriculum vitae, and list of societies of which they are members.

All application materials for student awards should be sent by mail to NAOC Student Awards Committee, c/o Frank C. Rohwer, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6220, USA (For FedEx/UPS delivery add “ Highland Road at Nicholson Extension” for street address). Questions may be directed to Frank Rohwer by phone, (225) 578-4146, or e-mail, frohwer@lsu.edu. Deadline for receipt of applications is 3 May 2002. Applications sent by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.

Travel Awards from the AOU (Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards), COS, SCO/SOC, and RRF can be made to students who are sole authors or joint authors of papers, but students must present the poster or oral paper and be the first author. A Travel Award is issued only after the paper/poster has been accepted by the Scientific Program Committee. The number of Travel Awards is limited. Applicants are expected to present their poster or paper regardless of whether they receive an award. Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Awards have a limit of two per lifetime. Students may receive both research and travel awards in the same year from the ornithological societies. Travel Awards do not cover registration or food.

The NAOC Student Awards Committee offered 118 travel awards using funds provided by the AOU, COS, and RRF.  The awardees are listed here:

Kathryn E. H. Aitken, University of British Columbia - Nest cavity availability and selection in central British Columbia

Frank K. Ammer, West Virginia University - Reproductive success and nest site selection of Grasshopper Sparrow populations in southern West Virginia

Michael J. Anteau, Louisiana State University - Nutrient reserves of Lesser Scaup during spring migration in the Mississippi flyway: A test of the spring condition hypothesis

Steven M. Aquilani, University of Mississippi - Current and pre-settlement location of closed-canopy forest habitat in Holly Springs National Forest: Implications for songbird conservation and fire management

Daniel R. Ardia, Cornell University - Experimental increases in reproductive effort affect primary and acquired immunity in Tree Swallows

James W. Armacost, Illinois State University - Birds of a palm-dominated Terra firme forest: The effect of habitat heterogeneity on regional avian diversity

Anna R. Armitage, University of California-Los Angeles - Spatial scale variability in wintering shorebird use of coastal wetland restoration sites
Casey Armour, University of North Dakota - Effects of management activities on upland nesting waterfowl and American Bitterns

Andrea Alejandra Astie, University of Buenos Aires - Impact of brood parasitism by Shiny Cowbirds on Creamy-billied Thrush reproductive success

Kelly A. Atchison, Ohio State University - Influence of landscape matrix, microclimate, and local habitat characteristics on wintering birds in riparian forests

Marja H. Bakermans, Ohio State University - Acadian Flycatchers in midwestern riparian forests: Local- and landscape-level patterns

Shelley Bayard de Volo, Colorado State University - Recovering DNA from molted raptor feathers for use in genotyping and mark/recapture analyysis: A work in progress

Thomas J. Benson, Iowa State University - Songbird responses to management of a Midwestern riparian floodplain

Isabelle-Anne Bisson, York University - How nearctic and intratropical migration shape dawn song and morphology in the New World

David N. Bonter, University of Vermont - Divergent migration directions in the Great Lakes Basin: the result of atmospheric circulation?

Travis L. Booms, Boise State University - Gyrfalcon diet in west Greenland during the nestling period

Kathi L. Borgmann, Ohio State University - Invasion of riparian forests by exotic shrubs:  Impacts on nesting birds

Marylene Boulet, McMaster University - Where do Yellow Warblers go?  An application of genetic markers as a tool to assess migratory connectivity among breeding and wintering grounds

Deborah M. Buehler, University of Toronto - Genetic diversity and population structure in Red Knots (Calidris canutus): An avian cheetah on a global scale

Jason Bulluck, Appalachian State University - The importance of southern Appalachian wetlands to breeding birds: The role of beaver

Jay D. Carlisle, University of South Dakota - Relating food availability, diet and foraging behavior of autumn passerine migrants in Idaho

Sandra B. Cederbaum, University of Georgia - Conservation tillage, providing source habitat for Horned Lark?

Nicola L. Chong, University of Toronto - Immunocompetence, parentage and MHC in the Red-billed Gull breeding colony, Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand

Santiago Claramunt, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural - Osteological perspectives on the phylogeny of recent and fossil furnarioids

Sharon J. Coe, University of California-Riverside - Water availability and reproduction in desert birds: The effects of water supplementation in the Black-throated Sparrow

Emily B. Cohen, Michigan State University - Ecology of post-fledging White-throated Robins (Turdus assimilis)

Gabriel J. Colorado, Universidad de Nal. Colombia - Diversity and occurrence of boreal migrant songbirds in the Darien Region, northwestern Colombia: A migration monitoring program initiative

Kerri L. Cornell, Villanova University - Hatching success and nestling sex ratio in Black-capped and Carolina chickadees: Do hybridizing chickadees in Pennsylvania follow Haldane's Rule?

Nandadevi Cortes-Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Genetic variation in the Amethyst-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis amethystinus) complex using mitochondrial DNA

Christine Dahlin, Northern Arizona University - Audience effects on Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyancephalus) vocalizations

Veronica Laura D'Amico, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia - Shorebirds feeding in mixed flocks in Fracasso Beach, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina

Liliana M. Davalos, Columbia University - Are conservation priority areas artifacts of sampling?

Jill L. Deppe, University of California-Riverside - Selection of stopover habitat by fall trans-gulf migrant landbirds in the Yucatan Peninsula

Roarke E. Donnelly, University of Washington - The relative importance of local vegetation and landscape pattern to Seattle's native bird communities

Patrick J. Doran, Dartmouth College - Spatiotemporal variability of breeding birds in an undisturbed nothern hardwoods forest

Stephanie M. Doucet, Queen's University - Parasites, plumage and sexual selection in Satin Bowerbird

Leo R. Douglas, University of the West Indies - Impact of habitat degradation on birds breeding in the life zone of tropical dry forests of southern Jamaica

Emily H. DuVal, University of California-Berkeley - Delayed direct benefits as an adaptive advantage of cooperative courtship in the Lance-tailed Manakin

Jason Duxbury, University of Alberta - Solving the mystery of the unbanded Peregrine Falcons- a stable isotope exploration of Northern Canada

Kevin Ellison, University of Manitoba - Does offspring sex affect host use by sympatric cowbirds?

Bradley C. Fedy, York University - Territory defense in tropical birds: Are females as aggressive as males?

Maria J. F. Fernandez Jauregui, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile - Are insects an alternative energy source for hummingbirds? An experimental study in Green-backed Firecrowns (Sephanoides sephaniodes)

Robert J. Fletcher, Jr., Iowa State University - The nature of multiple edge effects on bird distributions

Rachel Fraser, Queen's University - Extra-pair paternity in Golden-winged Warblers: Implications of mate choice for hybridization with Blue-winged Warblers

Marcel A. Gahbauer, McGill University - Migratory patterns of North American Peregrine Falcons: The origin factor

Jennifer Gee, Princeton University - Covey formation contributes to heterospecific pairing in hybridizing California and Gambel's quail (Callipepla californica and C. gambelii)

Cecilia M. Gichuki, Kenyatta University - Ecology of African Snipe (Gallinago nigripennis): An endemic bird of high altitude wetlands

James J. Giocomo, University of Tennessee - Managing grassland birds on military installations in the eastern United States

Eben Goodale, University of Massachusetts - Alarm calling in a Sri Lankan mixed-species flock system

Scott Gremel, University of Washington - The impacts of expanding Barred Owl populations on the Northern Spotted Owl in the Olympic National Park, Washington

Nathalie J. Hamel, University of Washington - Is there (by)catch?  Spatio-temporal overlap of Common Murres and gillnet fishing in Washington

Mark F. Haussmann, Iowa State University - Teaching an old bird new tricks: does telomere length increase with age in long-lived birds?

Kirsten R. Hazler, University of Georgia - Is songbirds breeding territory selection influenced by nest predation and brood parasitism risk?

Lynn S. Hodgens, Arkansas State University - A bioenergetic model of trout predation by Great Blue Herons on the White River in Arkansas

Scott P. Horton, University of Washington - Trends in Marbled Murrelet inland activity in old growth forests: Olympic Experimental State Forest, Washington.

Jaimie Jahncke, University of Calfornia-Irvine - Trends in carbon flux to seabirds in the Peruvian upwelling

Jeff A. Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Population genetics of Greater Prairie Chickens

Jason C. Johnston, University of Maine - Nest desertion in response to partial clutch loss: A manipulative study

Alan H. Krakauer, University of California-Berkeley - Parentage in Wild Turkey nests and its implications for kin selection

Terry R. Krueger, University of Miami - Parasite fauna and their effects on condition in a natural population of a tropical passerine

Gary M. Langham, Cornell University - Sex-biased territoriality, movement patterns, and helping behavior in Rufous-tailed Jacamars

Christopher A. Lepczyk, Michigan State University - Landowner influences on birds across rural-to-urban landscapes

Keith P. Lewis, Memorial University of Newfoundland - A preliminary test of the primary nest predator/nest predator diversity hypothesis

John D. Lloyd, University of Montana - Sibling competition and the duration of incubation

Jennifer A. Long, University of Maine - Changing patterns of corticosterone secretion play a functional role in migratory fattening

Xavier Lopez-Mendellin, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Passeriformes trade in Mexico:  A challenge for conservation

Scott F. Lovell, University. of Calgary - Neighbor-stranger discrimination in a suboscine, the Alder Flycatcher

Christina J. Maranto, University of California-Irvine - The influence of prey choice and food quality on reproductive performance in an Arctic Tern population

Damion E. Marx, Texas A&M University - Habitat partitioning among wintering grassland passerines in a Texas mid-coastal prairie

Jonathan D. Maul, Arkansas State University - Cloacal microbial flora in breeding and wintering birds: Overall prevelance and relationship to condition index, fluctuating assymetry, and habitat

Hope R. McGaha, University of Manitoba - Nestling competition of sympatric cowbirds: the role of gape and flange coloration

Timothy D. Meehan, Humboldt State University - Short-term effects of wildlifire on the site selection and habitat quality of a disturbance-dependant flycatcher

Daniel J. Mennill, Queen's University - Black and white signals of sex and rank in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapilla)

William W. Merkle, University of Colorado - The effects of recreational trail-use on the nesting ecology and behavior of American Robins and Yellow Warblers

Jennifer Nesbitt Styrsky, University of Illinois-Urbana - Clutch size evolution in a neotropical bird: Experimental test of nest predation and individual optimization hypotheses

Amanda C. Niehaus, Simon Fraser University - Differential migratory timing of male and female Western Sandpipers on the southward migration

Jacqueline K. Nooker, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Effects of female condition on reproductive success in Tree Swallows

Kathleen D. O'Connor, University of British Columbia - Extra-pair fertilization and effective population size in the Song Sparrow.

Christopher Olson, Iowa State University - Effects of incubation behavior on embryo metabolism

Jason E. Osenkowski, University of Rhode Island - Using long-term bird banding to estimate population trends of migrant landbirds

Diana Cumings Outlaw, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - The evolution of migration in the Motacillidae

Noah T. Owen-Ashley, University of Washington - Differential immune defense in monogamous and polygynandrous longspurs

Maria G. Palacios, University of Montana - Incubation period and immunocompetence: A comparative study

Timothy H. Parker, University of New Mexico - Dominant male Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) test the dominance status of other males

Rebecca G. Peak, University of Missouri - Factors affecting nest success of songbirds in riparian corridors

Talima Pearson, Northern Arizona University - Polygyny and extra-pair paternity in a population of Southwestern Willow Flycatchers

Bonnie L. Peterson, San Diego State University - Multi-scale analysis of nest predation risk of the Least Bell's Vireo

David W. Podlesak, University of Rhode Island - Stable isotopes in breath and blood indicate nutrient incorporation and utilization in migratory songbirds

Andrei L. Podolsky, North Carolina State University - An experimental study of parental care under varying food availability

Nicole E. Poirier, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Multiple broods are better that extrapair mating in House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon)

Suhel Quader, University of Florida - Size dimorphism and sexual selection across bird species: A nonlinear relationship

Romulo Ribon, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Colonization of eastern Brazil by the Cinereous Warbling-finch (Poospiza cinerea), with some comments on its natural history

Pauline Roberts, Dartmouth College - Seasonal increase in nest predation rates for a ground nesting warbler

Amy S. Roe, Clemson University - Development of an avian biosentinel program for Michigan using the Bald Eagle.

Tina Rohila, University of Washington - Landscape and local effects on snags and cavity-nesting birds in urban areas

Ana Maria Saavedra, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado - Names, significance, and use of birds by the indigenous communities of the Bolivian Izozog Region

Scott Schlossberg, University of Illinois - Conspecific attraction and the conservation of endangered birds

Nathaniel E. Seavy, University of Florida - Defining thermoneutrality with a Bayesian model: do open habitat birds have lower critical temperatures than forest species?

Andrea L. Smith, Queen's University - Has temporal segregation led to sympatric divergence in Band-rumped Storm-Petrels

Ruth B. Smith, University of New Mexico - Using combined stable-hydrogen isotope and band encounter analyses to assess migration patterns of immature Sharp-shinned Hawks

Sophia Solorzano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Genetic status of Pharomachus mocinno (Trogonidae)

Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Brigham Young University - Year round movements and habitats of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) breeding in Utah using satellite telemetry

Tara E. Stehelin, University of Calgary - Song variation in a Dusky Flycatcher population in southwestern Alberta

Iain J. Stenhouse, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Nest predation on Sabine's Gulls: The influence of alternative prey

Rebecca L. M. Stewart, University of Manitoba - Age-related differential timing of spring migration within sexes in passerines

Katherine M. Strickler, University of Idaho - One if by land, two if by stream: Using genetic markers to assess inter-watershed dispersal in American Dippers

Walter S. Svagelj, Universidade de Buenos Aires - Use of artificial eggs to determine egg losses and predation in Neotropical passerine

Heather Swanson, University of Colorado - The response of ponderosa pine forest birds to differing forest structure along the Colorado Front Range, Boulder, CO

Carol L. Trocki, University of Rhode Island - Patterns of salt marsh use by wading birds in Rhode Island

Thomas M. Unfried, University of California-Riverside - Context-dependent edge effects on coastal sage scrub birds

Christopher D. Valligny, Villanova University - Effects of an intense winter fire on Florida Scrub-Jay habitat use

Stacey Vigallon, University of Washington - Nest predation strategies: How do Steller's Jays find nests

Brett L. Walker, University of Montana - Does variation in female arrival date bias count data in migratory songbirds?

David M. Whalen, University of New Mexico - Influence of weather conditions and migrant density on migration patterns of Northern Saw-whet Owls

Kara A. Whittaker, University of Washington - Male parental care and paternity in a double-brooded species with brood division

Gary E. Williams, West Virginia University - Habitat-related constraints upon Wood Thrush nest attendance, food delivery rates, and fledging success: A study using infrared miniature video cameras

Susan Willson Hillman, University of Missouri - Where do you want to eat?  A comparison of foraging strategy in patch choice among four synoptic obligate army ant following species

John C. Withey, Univ. of Washington - Do adolescent crows become young urban crows? Juvenile dispersal of American Crows across a gradient of urbanization

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