NORTH CHESTERFIELD, VA. July 11, 2016 – A highly accomplished group of young birders gathered at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology this past weekend for the eighth annual Young Birders Event, hosted by the Lab and co-sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics.
The Young Birders Event aims to bring together teenagers (students who will be sophomores, juniors and seniors) with a passion for birds who are interested in pursuing a career with birds. The participants met people who have successful careers that involve birds in a variety of ways from ornithological researchers to tour leaders, to audio specialists and computer scientists.
The Young Birder's Event featured:
· Two days of field trips
· Presentations by Cornell Lab of Ornithology staff including professors, researchers, and students
who will share various ways to incorporate birds into a career
· eBird and field notes workshop
· Sound recording workshop
· Tour of the Cornell Lab including the Macaulay Library and Museum of Vertebrates
· Dinner with Cornell Lab Directors and Staff
As a "Thank You" for participating, each young birder received a TERRA ED 8x42 binocular, courtesy of ZEISS.
Meet Chris Wood and Jessie Barry, the coordinators for the event:
Chris Wood is the Project Leader for eBird and Neotropical Birds. He's a Colorado native who's been birding since he figured out he couldn't find dinosaur fossils in his sandbox. Chris has traveled the world in search of birds and is thrilled to be able to share some stories and birding skills with young birders and show how to transform birding into science.
Jessie Barry is the Program Manager for the Macaulay Library and manages Merlin Bird ID, an app for identifying North American birds. For her first several years at Cornell, she was an Assistant Curator in the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Her first word was "duck" and she's been working on a life list since age 10. Along with Chris, Jessie hosts the Lab's birding video series called Inside Birding.
If you know of a promising young birder in grades 9 through 12, tell them about the Young Birder's Event and have them contact Jessie Barry at jb794@cornell.edu to find out more about the 2017 session.
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About ZEISS
ZEISS is an international technology group in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. The ZEISS Group develops and distributes semiconductor manufacturing equipment, measuring technology, microscopes, medical technology, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetarium technology. With its solutions, the company constantly advances the world of optics and helps shape technological progress. ZEISS is divided up into the four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Research & Quality Technology, Medical Technology, and Vision Care/ Consumer Optics. ZEISS is represented in over 40 countries and operates more than 30 production sites, over 50 sales and service locations and about 25 research and development facilities.
In fiscal year 2014/15 the company generated revenue approximating €4.5 billion with around 25,000 employees. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. Carl Zeiss AG is the strategic management holding company that manages the ZEISS Group. The company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).
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Consumer Optics
The Consumer Optics business group combines the company's business with camera and movie lenses, binoculars, spotting scopes, hunting optics and planetarium technology. It is represented at the Oberkochen, Wetzlar and Jena sites. The business group is allocated to the Vision Care/Consumer Optics segment. In fiscal year 2014/15 the segment generated revenue of €1.007 billion with around 9,100 employees.
