| MONDAY, JUNE 21 | |
| 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Registration |
| 9:30-11:45 a.m. | BSC-USA Steering Committee Meeting |
| 9:30-11:45 a.m. | Annual General Meeting of the Bird Strike Association of Canada |
| 1-5 p.m. | Early Bird Hands-On Training |
| 6-7:30 p.m. | Opening Host Reception with Exhibitors
Hosted by Salt Lake City International Airport |
| TUESDAY, JUNE 22 | |
| 7 a.m.-5 p.m. | Registration |
| 7-8 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 8-10 a.m. | Plenary Session - Welcome Remarks Bird Strike Committee
- Welcome Remarks Salt Lake City International Airport
- Keynote Address: US Airways Flight 1549
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Skiles, First Officer, US Airways - Update from the FAA
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| 10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Technical Session: Regulations - Overview and history of the wildlife hazard management plan (WHMP) at Salt Lake City International Airport
Gib Rokich, Salt Lake City International Airport - Conservation success and changes in federal legislation: Implications for eagles and airports
Michelle Gray, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services - When regulations collide: Ideas for further development of the aviation stormwater design manual
David R. Felstul, Herrera Environmental Consultants |
| 12-1:30 p.m. | Buffet Lunch with Exhibitors |
| 1:30-3 p.m. | Technical Session: Wildlife Hazard Assessments - Status of wildlife hazards at general aviation airports in New York
Jayme L. Patrick, FAA - Applying GIS and relative hazard scores to produce a meaningful wildlife hazard assessment
Church Roberts, Johnson Engineering, Inc. - Breaking and entering: Gaining access to wildlife hazard assessment contracts
Jay Tischendorf, American Ecological Research Institute |
| 3-3:30 p.m. | Break with Exhibitors |
| 3:30-4 p.m. | Technical Session: Issues in Airspace - The effect of weather conditions on bird-aircraft strikes at U.S. airports
Jinfeng Wang, University of Illnois - Integrating avian radar into daily operations at NAS Kingsville, Texas
Eddie Earwood, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services |
| 4:30 p.m. | Military/Civil Breakout Session |
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23 | |
| 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Concurrent Session #1: "Tools and Techniques"
Technical Session: Identification Techniques - Gulls gone wild: Why DNA is not adequate for 'white-headed gull' identifications
Sarah Sonsthagen, Smithsonian Institution - Using FTA cards to collect DNA for birdstrike identifications
Carla J. Dove, Smithsonian Institution - "No soup for you!": Using dietary analysis to reduce bird-aircraft collisions
Brian E. Washburn, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center |
| 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Concurrent Session #2: "Airport Environments"
Technical Session: Off-airport Issues - Off-airfield bird hazard management at UK aerodromes
Phil Mountain, Food and Environmental Resource Agency, UK - Removal of off-airport wildlife hazards:A case study of New York City Canada geese
Martin S. Lowney, USDA/APHIS/WIldlife Services - Anadromous salmon stream interaction and conflict with Ketchikan International Airport
Cheryl Fultz, SEAPRO |
| 10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Concurrent Session #1: "Tools and Techniques"
Technical Session: Applied Methods for Wildlife Control - Birds under grids and over poop: Deterring waterfowl from sewage treatment ponds and streams
Thomas W. Seamans, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center - Summary of Wildlife Services' red-tailed hawk translocation efforts amoung 19 U.S. Airports, 2008-2010
Laurence M. Schafer, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services - Practical application of vehicle mounted infrared systems in wildlife control at Hurlburt Field
Rebecca Rushing, Birdstrike Control Program |
| 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Concurrent Session #2: "Airport Environments"
Technical Session: Radar Technologies - Integration of real-time bird radar information into civil air traffic control operations: A roadmap
Ron Merritt, Detect, Inc. - Towards maximizing situational awareness using airport avian radars
Tim J. Nohara, Accipiter Radar Corporation - Using avian radar to predict bird movement at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Elizabeth Woodworth, University of Illinois |
| 12:30-4:30 p.m. | Lunch and Tour of Salt Lake City International Airport
Hosted By Salt Lake City International Airport |
| 6-7:30 p.m. | Exhibitors Social and Poster Session |
| THURSDAY, JUNE 24 | |
| 8:30-10 a.m. | Technical Session: Analyzing Data - Cybertracker and Windows Mobile: An inexpensive solution for electronic wildlife control data collection
Melody Henderson, Birdstrike Control Program - A quantified species specific bird hazard index enabling a bird control decision support system
Inge Both, Royal Netherlands Air Force - It's a bird, it's a plane, it's visual analytics!
Andrew T. Wade, Simon Fraser University |
| 10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break with Exhibitors |
| 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Technical Session: Aircraft and Altitudes - Increasing trend of damaging strikes to air carrier aircraft outside the airport boundary: Implications for mitigation measure
Richard A. Dolbeer, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services - Differential susceptibility of aircraft to bird strikes
Gary F. Searing, Airport Wildlife Management International - Object detection and avoidance by birds: It's not a matter of "outrunning" a jet
Bradley F. Blackwell, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center |
| 12-1:30 p.m. | Lunch on own |
| 1:30-3 p.m. | Technical Session: Reducing Wildlife Hazards - Soft skills: A tool box unexploited
John E. Ostrom, Metropolitan Airports Commission - Native and naturalized turf species utilized at airports managed for wildlife hazards in the Northeastern U.S.
Kirstin Dorsch, State University of New York College at Oneonta - Observations of the effects of specific sounds emitted from a planar magnetic transducer on wild avian and mammal populations
Clinton C. Ready, Middle Georgia College |
| 3-3:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks
John Ostrom, Chair, BSC-USA |
| 3:15-3:30 p.m. | Invitation to 2011 meeting in Canada |
| 3:30-4:30 p.m. | BSC-USA/Canada Committee Discussion
All Candidates Welcome |
