21-24
August 2006
Bird
Strike Committee USA/Canada Meeting
BSC-USA
and AAAE enter into Partnership for Successful 2006 Meeting
Bird Strike Committee USA/Canada
meetings have grown in popularity over the past decade. Because of the growth in attendance and
increased emphasis on training and interaction with other organizations in the
aviation industry, BSC-USA signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the
American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) for the 2006 meeting. AAAE handled registration and
meeting logistics and BSC-USA handled the technical program and training
sessions.
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2006
Technical Program (Click on presentation titles in blue to download PDF
version)
0900-1800 REGISTRATION (Sheraton City Center,
Breckenridge Foyer)
1000-1130 BSC-USA STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (City View A)
1300-1700 EARLY-BIRD
TRAINING IN WILDLIFE CAPTURE (Breakout A and Airport)
1800-2000
WELCOME RECEPTION (City
View Ballroom)
Hosted by
TUESDAY, 22 AUGUST 2006
0700 BREAKFAST (Salons D&E)
PLENARY SESSION
0800 I fell
into a burning ring of fire: Dr. Richard Dolbeer, Chairman, Bird
Strike Committee-USA
0810 Welcome to St. Louis: Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
0815 Keynote
Address: “The normalization of
deviance” Dr. Steve Predmore, Vice
President & Chief Safety Officer, Jet Blue Airways
0840 Air Carrier perspectives (ATA, United, Delta)
0900 Discussion with Audience-Role of air carriers in reducing strikes
0930 Reduction
of risk: a flight crew guide to the avoidance and mitigate of wildlife strikes
to aircraft (PowerPoint presentation)
by
Paul Eschenfelder, Avion Corporation (1)
(Written
presentation)
1000-1030
BREAK (Visit
the Exhibitors, Salons D&E)
TECHNICAL SESSION I: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES & NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
1030 International
Birdstrike Committee minimum best practice standards for aerodrome bird control
(PowerPoint presentation) by John
Allan, Central Science Laboratory, UK (2) (Written
presentation)
1100 China civil aviation birdstrike
prevention by Li Jing, China Center of Aviation Safety
Technology, P.R. China (3)
1130 Remote
sensing technology and ground-based observations for evaluating a proposed
airport site in Conway, Arkansas by Russ DeFusco, BASH, Inc. (4)
1200-1330 BUFFET
LUNCH PROVIDED (City View Ballroom)
TECHNICAL SESSION II: REMOTE MONITORING & RADAR
1330 Remote sensing of birds around airports
- present efforts in Germany by Wilhelm Ruhe, Bundeswehr Geoinformation Office (5)
1400 Developing protocols for bird strike
radar performance assessment by Ed Herricks, University of Illinois (6)
1430 Implementation and distribution of bird
detection radar and bird hazard advisory information for military and
commercial aviation by T. Adam
Kelly, Detect, Inc. (7)
1500-1530 BREAK
(Visit the Exhibitors, Salons D&E)
TECHNICAL SESSION III: REMOTE MONITORING & RADAR II
1530 Lessons
learnt from avian radar trial at Toronto Pearson International Airport by Tim Nohara,
Sicom Systems, Ltd. (8)
1600 The
use of radar to augment visual observations in wildlife hazard assessments by Robert Beason, USDA, Wildlife
Services, National Wildlife Research Center (9)
1630 An
acoutsic / radar system for automated detection, localization, and
classification of birds in the vicinity of airfields by Bruce Stewart, Advanced
Acoustic Concepts, Inc. (10)
TECHNICAL
SESSION IV: HABITAT MANAGEMENT TECHIQUES
0800 The
airport is not a wildlife refuge! by Russ DeFusco, BASH, Inc. (11)
0830 Disposal of bio-solids at airports:
increased wildlife hazards to aviation or not? by Michael Begier, USDA,
Wildlife Services (12)
0900 Potential wildlife control through use of
a plant growth regulator by Thomas
Seamans, USDA, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center (13)
0930 Cattle
grazing as part of an integrated management program to reduce wildlife hazards
at Kansas City International Airport by Dan McMurtry, USDA,
Wildlife Services (14)
1000-1030 BREAK
(Visit the Exhibitors, Salons D&E)
TECHNICAL
SESSION V: HABITAT MANAGEMENT TECHNIQES
II
1030 Prey
manipulation as a management strategy at an inland South African airport by Ordino Kok, University of the Free State, South Africa (15)
1100 Bird use of stormwater management ponds:
design considerations relative to decreasing strikes with aircraft by
Bradley Blackwell, USDA, Wildlife
Services, National Wildlife Research Center (16)
1130 The impacts of habitat manipulation on
the ring-necked pheasant population at CCK Air Force Base in Taiwan by Shaopin
Yo, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan (17)
1200-1330 LUNCH
(City View Ballroom)
1330-1700 FIELD
TRIP TO WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY
1800-2000 EXHIBITORS
SOCIAL & POSTER SESSION (Salons D&E)
2000 USA vs. CANADA WATER
VOLLEYBALL GAME ()
0715-0815 MILITARY/CIVIL BREAKOUT SESSION (City
View Ballroom)
TECHNICAL SESSION VI: BIRD CONTROL TECHNIQUES
0830 The effect of harassment by dogs on
ground-nesting birds in airfields by Shlomi Brandwine, Border Collie Rescue
(18)
0900 Overhead
grid line systems to exclude waterfowl from large bodies of water by Anthony Duffiney, USDA,
Wildlife Services (19)
0930 Airport
canopies become starling roosts - two airport case studies by Sharon
Gordon, Port of Portland (20)
1000-1030
BREAK (Visit the Exhibitors, Salons D&E)
TECHNICAL
SESSION VII: BIRD STRIKE ISSUES-NEW PERSPECTIVES
1030 Response of birds to aircraft lighting:
implications for reducing bird-aircraft collisions by Bradley Blackwell, USDA, Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center (21)
1100 Using bird strike data to monitor
bird-hazard control by Tom Kelly, National University of Ireland
(22)
1130 Birds
commuting across the runway: how to reduce this bird strike risk? (PowerPoint
Presentation) by Albert de Hoon, Royal
Netherlands Air Force, The Netherlands (23) (Written
Presentation)
1200-1330 LUNCH (on your own)
TECHNICAL SESSION VIII: WILDLIFE STRIKE ISSUES
1330 DNA identification of birdstrike remains
- progress report by Carla Dove, Smithsonian Institution (24)
1400 Advisory
circular 150/5200-36. Qualifications for
wildlife biologist conducting wildlife hazard assessments and training
curriculums for aiport personnel involved in controlling wildlife hazards on
airports by Ed Cleary, Federal Aviation Administration (25)
1430 Media
response plans - the forgotten tools by John Ostrom, Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport (26)
1500 Invitation to 2007 meeting in Kingston, Ontario and Closing Remarks - Bruce MacKinnon, Transport Canada and
Chair, Bird Strike Committee Canada
1505-1600 BSC-USA/CANADA Steering Committee Meeting
(All Welcome)
POSTER SESSION (available for viewing throughout
conference)
· Methodological
framework to assess the relative threat of bird-strikes in Columbian airports. Juan David Amaya-Espinel, Conzooltores Ltda
· Evaluation
of bird-strike risk in two Columbian airports: standard methodology to rank
species and propose management priorities. Juan David Amaya-Espinel,
Conzooltores Ltda
· Employing
BASH at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts (Part
1) (Part
2) (Part
3). Gary Cooke, Westover AFB
· Real
birds versus whirly birds: bird strikes to civil helicopters in the USA,
1990-2005. Richard
A. Dolbeer, USDA, Wildlife Services
· Canada
goose populations and strikes with civil aircraft: positive trends for aviation
industry. Richard
A. Dolbeer, USDA, Wildlife Services
· Avian
influenza: what field biologists should know. Carla Dove, Smithsonian Institution
· Developing a
risk rating system for bird strike occurrences. Albert Froneman, Airports Company S.
Africa-Endangered Wildlife Trust
· Bat strikes:
past, present, and future. Suzanne
Peurach, Smithsonian Institution
· DNA
identification of birdstrike remains – procedures and technical considerations. Nancy Rotzel, Smithsonian Institution
· The vectorial 3D bird flight monitoring system: a new
tool to track and manage birds on airports. Raoul Tomassi, Tomassi and Tomassi
· Nicarbazin:
an avian reproductive inhibitor for pigeons and geese. Christi A.
Yoder, USDA, Wildlife Services,
· Bird classification in noisy environments: theory,
results, and comparative studies. Yingchuan Zhang, Intelligent Automation,
Inc.