Recognitions

Dr. Rowan Gould, Deputy Director of Operations for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, will be presented with the 2013 Diversity Excellence Award from the Federal Asian Pacific American Council at the upcoming 28th Annual National Leadership Training Program.

The National Audubon Society celebrated the legacy of female leadership in conservation by presenting the Rachel Carson Award on May 29 to Marian Heiskell and Lady Bird Johnson.

The National Audubon Society will celebrate its 10th Anniversary Women in Conservation Luncheon by presenting the 2013 Rachel Carson Award to two exceptional women at The Plaza Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, May 29.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is this year's recipient of the Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award, in recognition of its multi-year Migratory Linkages of Burrowing Owls on Department of Defense Installations and Adjacent Lands project.

In a ceremony taking place May 14 at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library in New York City, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will present its prestigious Arthur A. Allen Award for 2013 to Dr. Robert Ridgely, an expert on Neotropical birds, and co-author of The Birds of Panama, The Birds of Ecuador, and The Birds of South America.

The Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge has been recognized as one of the recipients of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Rachel Carson Awards for Scientific Excellence for 2012, an honor annually bestowed for providing key scientific support for new and innovative conservation initiatives and efforts on behalf of federal, state, and private conservation organizations.

The recipients of the 2013 Gary T. Meyers Bird Conservation Award have been announced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) and the Association of Joint Venture Management Boards (AJVMB).

Courtney Turrin, a graduate student working within The Center for Conservation Biology has been named as recipient of The Carl J. Strikwerda Award for Excellence named for previous Dean of Arts and Sciences of The College of William and Mary for her work studying nesting bald eagles within the lower Chesapeake Bay.

The Eastern Golden Eagle Working Group has received the Wings Across the Americas Award issued by the U.S. Forest Service to annually recognize individuals and groups that provide outstanding contributions to international conservation of important bird species.

Vermont's Foresters for the Birds project has won national recognition from the U.S. Forest Service Wings Across the Americas program for its collaborative approach to forest and bird habitat conservation in Vermont and along the Atlantic Flyway.