Hey Everyone,
I’m writing this to let you know that I’ll be stepping back from the radar posts this spring, in order to finish my dissertation (I’m planning to defend at the end of July). It’s impossible for me to keep up the site at the level necessary, and still finish in time, so I need to take a hiatus at least for this semester. I will still be posting the birding weather forecasts on http://birdcapemay.org/bfma/ and I have passed the torch to my friends, Angel and Mariel, for managing http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com (it’s like woodcreeper.com, but for Florida and the Caribbean). I hope you’ll find both of these sites useful during migration.
In the meantime I’m working on a grant proposal for postdoctoral research on migration and radar, which will eventually take woodcreeper.com to the next level of sophistication and complexity… more than anything else, that’s what I want to focus on, but first things first, I need to finish my phd!
Okay, that’s all for now. Thanks for understanding, and I look forward to seeing you in and out of the field.
Good Birding!
David
3 responses to “Changes for 2009”
As one RU grad student to another, good luck!!!
I just dropped by Woodcreeper to start calculating in the radar echoes for my destinations. So sorry to hear it will be on hiatus for the spring, but it’s for a good cause – your Ph.D.!
For what it’s worth, I think you are jumping on this topic at the right time. It’s interdisciplinary, involving weather and technology. RU has a very fine meteorology department. Do you work with them? Also, science funding is ramping up exponentially right now.
Good luck on the grant application!
Good luck David! I hope the next level is not too complex! I was just starting to learn to read the radar now…. Are you doing anything with the sea radar? I found that fascinating how they are trying to incorporate radar at the Avalon seawatch. And what about the diurnal migrants over NJ? Endless possibilities for research and learning.