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Grad student living the dream with bird migration researchMay 13th, 2013Claire Sanders was finishing an undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta when her fascination with birds began. Now she's living her dream.A master's student in the biology lab of professorDan Mennill,air jordan shoes, Sanders studies the effectiveness of using acoustic recording technology to track the night time migratory patterns of a variety of song birds, some of which travel twice a year all the way from South and Central America to the Canadian Arctic."I never imagined I'd be living out here," she said during a quick break from banding warblers at the Hillman Marsh Conservation Area last week. "This is really an incredible place for birds in Canada. It's always been a dream to come to this area. I'm really fortunate to have the opportunity to study out here with the University of Windsor,tn pas cher, with Dan and with this incredible group of volunteers. It's pretty amazing."The volunteers she works with are from the Holiday Beach Migration Observatory, local birders who help band birds that stop over at the conservation area in the spring and fall as they migrate. Sanders, who earned her undergraduate degree about 10 years ago, was doing some work with the group which has a long standing relationship with the Mennill lab when the professor asked her if she'd like to do a master's degree under his tutelage.Since then, she's help set up seven digital recorders in locations around Essex County. Programmed to record ambient noises from sunset to sunrise, the recorders are equipped with four 16 gigabyte SD cards, and she now has more than 12,000 hours of recordings of bird songs from two migratory seasons to analyze. Advanced computer software converts the recordings to spectrograms visual representations of the noises so she can pinpoint the bird calls to study."We're trying to determine what kind of activity is happening at night,tn chaussure pas cher," she said, adding that most migration occurs at night and that various bird sounds are made for different reasons, ranging from warnings about potential predators to obstacle avoidance. "It's challenging because the sounds they make at night are so tiny."Besides the acoustics study,chaussure tn pas cher, she helps with the field work of catching, banding and releasing birds. Fine "mist" nets are set up out in the marsh,Christian Louboutin pas cher, where along with the other volunteers like Matt Watts, an undergraduate honors thesis student in Mennill's lab, Sanders trudges through the mud in her rubber boots to help release the birds, put them in cotton bags and transport them back to the barn where they're measured, weighed, recorded for gender and age, banded and then released.Ultimately, the work is all about studying long term changes in bird populations to better understand if climate change is having any impact on their numbers."Most importantly, we're trying to track populations, and if we do it consistently over a number of years, we should start to see population trends," she said. "I think a lot of these song birds are in trouble and we don't understand enough about their migratory routes. And so much of their mortality happens along these migratory routes."Sanders expects to defend her master's thesis in July.Claire Sanders works to free a bird from a mist net before taking it back to the barn for banding and data collection. Its current market of about one billion dollars is expected to grow to $45 billion by 2016.In a free presentation entitled "Organic Electronics: From Serendipitous Discovery to Market," Holger Eichhorn will provide some of the facts behind the buzz.The public is invited to join the discussion on Wednesday, May 15, for a journey from the early beginnings of organic electronics to today's and tomorrow's printable, flexible, and stretchable organic electronic devices. at Canada South Science City, 930 Marion Avenue.Dr. Eichhorn is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Windsor. His research group studies self assembling organic and nanostructured materials with applications to chemical sensors, drug delivery,air jordan, and advanced electronic devices.The event is part of the Science Caf series, which offers discussion of important science research for the general public.A grade 11 student of enriched physics at Vincent Massey Secondary School,tn requin, she joined about 120 classmates at the Centre for Engineering Innovation on Friday, May 10. It was the fourth year for the event,sac longchamp bandouliere, which emphasizes hands on activities to educate the youths about the profession.Wu said her favourite challenge was to build an 80 cm bridge out of craft sticks and tape and then provide instructions for a separate group to recreate the design, sight unseen."If you forget to say one thing,chaussures Louboutin pas cher, it can make all the difference," Wu said as she looked over the results side by side.Her schoolmate Ola Johnston said she plans to attend the University of Windsor when she finished high school, and was very impressed with its facilities."I thought it would be cool to see some of the campus," she said. "I'm not sure I will be studying engineering, but this makes me think about it. 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