2008
BSC-USA/Canada Meeting Program
0900-1800 REGISTRATION (Grand Foyer)
0930-1145 BSC-USA STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (Grand H)
1200-1230 BUS
LOADING FOR EARLY-BIRD PYROTECHNICS TRAINING
1300-1700 EARLY-BIRD
PYROTECHNICS TRAINING (limit: 150
people) (Airport)
1800-2000
WELCOME RECEPTION (Grand E)
Hosted by
TUESDAY, 19 AUGUST 2008
0700-1700 REGISTRATION (Grand Foyer)
0700-0800 CONTINENTAL
BREAKFAST WITH EXHIBITORS (Grand E)
PLENARY SESSION
(Plenary and Technical Sessions
are located in Grand Ballroom ABCD)
0800 In Memoriam: Bruce MacKinnon (1947-2008)
0820 Welcome to BSC-USA/Canada. Richard Dolbeer, Chairman, Bird Strike Committee-USA
0825 Welcome to Sanford and Seminole County. Geoffrey Longstaff,
Chairman Sanford Airport Authority;
Mayor
Linda Kuhn, City of Sanford; and Chairman Brenda Carey, Board of
0830 Aviation Safety and Wildlife. Honorable
John Mica, Ranking Republican, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure
0845 Keynote Address: wildlife issues during space shuttle launches. Stephen J. Payne, NASA Shuttle Test
Director, Launch and Landing Division, Kennedy Space Center
0915 Personal liability in the
aftermath of bird strikes: a costly consideration. Larry Dale, President/CEO Sanford Airport
Authority, Orlando-Sanford International Airport (1)
0945 DISCUSSION
1000-1030 BREAK (Visit the Exhibitors, Grand
E)
BIRD STRIKES IN FLORIDA, THE LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Moderator: John
Ostrom, Metropolitan Airports Commission, MSP
1030 Challenges, circumstances, and
considerations for bird and wildlife abatement and the importance of empirical and
historical data at central Florida airports. Johnny Metcalf, Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (2)
1100 Florida BASH: an integrated management
approach from the ground up. Marty Daniel, USDA Wildlife Services (3)
1130 Strategies for mitigating bird strike
risk from vulture populations at MacDill AFB. Jon Gilbert, Flyaway Farms and Kennels (4)
1200-1330 BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED (Grand E)
WATER MANAGEMENT AT AIRPORTS
Moderator: Bradley Blackwell,
USDA Wildlife Services
1330 The Florida statewide airport stormwater
survey. Abdul
Hatim, Florida Department of Transportation, Aviation Office (5)
1400 Parameters affecting bird use of
stormwater detention ponds in the southeastern United States: implications for
bird-aircraft collisions. Brian Fox, Auburn University (6)
1430 Bird hazard management on wetlands at UK
aerodromes. Andy Baxter, Central Science Laboratory, UK (7)
1500-1530
BREAK (Visit the Exhibitors, Grand E)
SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Moderator: Gene LeBoeuf,
USAF
1530 SMS and bird/wildlife management
programs. Nicholas Carter, Birdstrike Control Program (8)
1600 Safety Management Systems: how useful
will the FAA National Wildlife Strike Database be? Sandra Wright, USDA Wildlife Services (9)
1630 MILITARY/CIVIL BREAKOUT
SESSION
1800-2100 4TH
ANNUAL DeTECT BIRD STRIKE BBQ/JAM FEST (Enzian Theater, Maitland, FL)
0800-1200 CONCURRENT SESSION #1 “Low-tech” tools
0800-1200 CONCURRENT SESSION #2 “High-tech” tools
CONCURRENT SESSION #1:
“LOW-TECH” TOOLS FOR
MANAGING WILDLIFE HAZARDS AT AIRPORTS
Moderator: Mike Linnell,
USDA Wildlife Services
0800 Managing red-tailed hawk perching sites
on Federal Aviation Administration ILS Towers at General Mitchell International
Airport (MKE), Milwaukee, WI. Henri Woods,
USDA Wildlife Services (10)
0830 Test of an alternative rodent control
method: CHF fertilizer/small mammal repellant. Randy Outward, USDA Wildlife Services (11)
0900 Reducing bird strike risks through insect
management at a military base. Dedrick Pesek,
USDA Wildlife Services (12)
0930 A practical and cost effective approach to airport wildlife management
in the context of local land use: two Australian case studies. Phil
Shaw, Avisure (13)
1000-1030 BREAK
(Visit the Exhibitors, Grand E)
“LOW-TECH” TOOLS FOR
MANAGING WILDLIFE HAZARDS AT AIRPORTS (cont.)
Moderator: Elizabeth Louie,
FAA
1030 Capture, color-marking, and translocation of resident
and non-resident red-tailed hawks at Portland International Airport 1999-2007:
overview and evaluation of an innovative program. Carole Hallett, Pacific Habitat
Services
(14)
1100 Let's talk turkey: integrating traditional
wildlife management techniques to reduce wildlife hazards at airports. Christopher
Bowser, USDA Wildlife Services (15)
1130 Comparison of non-lethal versus lethal
control methods for red-tailed hawks and other bird species at the Waste
Management Outer Loop Recycling and Disposal Facility, Louisville, Kentucky,
USA. Russ DeFusco, BASH, Inc. (16)
CONCURRENT SESSION #2:
“HIGH-TECH” TOOLS (AVIAN
RADAR TECHNOLOGIES)
Moderator: Russ DeFusco,
BASH Inc.
0800 Aircraft bird strike avoidance radar
systems - looking forward: next generation advancements in the technology. T. Adam Kelly, Detect, Inc. (17)
0830 The US Air Force (USAF) SMR (Small Radar
Program): an overview and status report on the operational use of dedicated
avian radar systems at USAF airfields and ranges. Eugene LeBoeuf, US Air Force
BASH Team
(18)
0900 The ability of avian radars to track
near-miss bird strike events: a missing information link. Matthew Klope, US Navy, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command (19)
0930 Deployment and assessment of avian
radars. Ed
Herricks, University of Illinois (20)
1000-1030 BREAK
(Visit the Exhibitors, Grand E)
“HIGH-TECH” TOOLS
(MISCELLANEOUS TECHNOLOGIES)
Moderator: Bob Dogan, Air
National Guard
1030 The bird strike risk, to be countered or
contained? Arie Dekker, Netherlands
Royal Air Force, Netherlands (21)
1100 Quantifying vulture activity at Marine
Corps Air Station, Beaufort, NC. Michael Avery, USDA Wildlife Services,
National Wildlife Research Center (22)
1130 Forensic bird strike identification
techniques used in the accident investigation at Wiley Post Airport, Oklahoma. Carla Dove, Smithsonian Institution (23)
1200-1215 BUS
LOADING FOR FIELD TRIP TO AIRPORT
1230-1400 COOK-OUT AT AIRPORT PICNIC PAVILION, LAKE GOLDEN.
Hosted by Sanford Airport Authority.
Educational
exhibits by Audubon of Florida, Center for Birds of Prey, Maitland, Florida and Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, Sanford,
Florida
1400-1630 TOUR OF ORLANDO SANFORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (SFB) and EXHIBITOR DEMONSTRATIONS
1800-2000 EXHIBITORS SOCIAL & POSTER SESSION (Grand E)
2000 USA vs.
CANADA WATER VOLLEYBALL (Hotel Pool)
HOSPITALITY SUITE BY O.R. COLAN & ASSOCIATES (Poolside)
BIRD STRIKE REPORTING
Moderator: James Stephen, Delta Airlines
0800 Teamwork by regions in large countries
like Brazil - a good solution for bird strikes.
Raul Moreira Neto, Brazilian Air Force, Brazil (24)
0830 The bird hazard report as a safety tool.
Flávio Antonio Coimbra Mendonça, Brazilan Air
Force, Brazil (25)
0900 Bird/wildlife strike reporting - UK CAA
perspective. Nick Yearwood, CAA Safety Regulations Group,
UK (26)
0930 A decade of US Air Force bat strikes. Susanne Peurach, Smithsonian Institution (27)
1000-1030
BREAK (Visit the Exhibitors) (Grand E)
TRAINING
ISSUES
Moderator: Matt Klope, US Navy
1030 Training for airport wildlife control
personnel: the IBSC recommendation.
Paul Eschenfelder, Avion Corporation (28)
1100 Airport wildlife management training -
programs and best training practices now and for the future. John Ostrom, Metropolitan Airports
Commission, MSP (29)
1130 Training airport personnel for wildlife
hazards: organization, obligation, and expectation. John Weller, USDA Wildlife
Services
(30)
1200-1330 LUNCH (on your own)
WILDLIFE HAZARDS COAST TO COAST
Moderator: Mike Begier, USDA Wildlife Services
1330 Edwards Air Force Base migratory bird
report for the “Replace Main Base Runway” project. Amber Hoehn, Edwards Air Force Base (31)
1400 Dispersal patterns of a population of
wild turkeys in relation to air traffic hazards at Pease International Airport.
Angelic DeButts, USDA Wildlife Services (32)
1430 Stormwater management, grain production,
birds, and aviation safety in the southern Great Plains. Phil Robinson, USDA Wildlife Services (33)
1500 Closing remarks. Richard
Dolbeer, Outgoing Chair, BSC-USA and newly elected Chair.
Invitation
to 2009 meeting in Canada. Scott Snow, Victoria Airport
Authority, representing Bird Strike Committee Canada.
1515-1400 BSC-USA/CANADA
Committee Discussion (All Welcome)
0830
0900 BUS DEPARTS
1000-1300 POST-CONFERENCE TOUR - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (cancelled because of Hurricane Fay; KSC had
over 20 inches of rain between 19-21 August)
1315 DEPART
Poster Presentations (on
display for entire conference; Authors will be at posters during Wednesday
Evening Exhibitor Social)
1.
“Buzzard Be-Gone”: suspending vulture effigies from
roost structures to reduce the possibility of a bird strike. Steve Ball, Wildlife Specialist, USDA
Wildlife Services
2.
The geese of Queens: movement and management of Canada
geese in relation to New York City airports. Scott E. Clemons, Thomas W. Seamans, Allen L. Gosser, and Martin S.
Lowney, USDA Wildlife Services.
3.
The ornithological situation of military airfield in
Deblin in the context of bird strikes. Janusz
Cwiklak, Marek Grzegorzewski, Stefan Krop, Aviation Faculty, Polish Air Force
Academy, Deblin,
4.
Improving the DNA Identification success rate of bird
strike remains through better field collecting methods. Faridah Dahlan, Carla Dove, Marcy
Heacker, Smithsonian Institution
5.
Organizational efforts in aviation wildlife mitigation
– University story. Paul
Eschenfelder, Avion Corp.; Archie Dickey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
6.
Vulture management at Avon Park Air Force Range,
Florida. John Humphrey, Michael Milleson, USDA
Wildlife Services; Troy Hershberger, Avon Park Air Force Range; Michael Avery,
USDA Wildlife Services
7.
The
use of endophytic turf grass to reduce bird and small mammal presence at
airports.
Theresa Kissane, Jeff Brawn and Bruce Branham, University
of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
8.
The use of an integrated Geographical Information
System at South African Airports. Clair
Patterson-Abrolat, Airport Wildlife Working Group, Endangered Wildlife
1.
Developing strategies for long-term removal of raptors
from airports in California. Todd
Pitlik, USDA Wildlife Services
2.
Assessing movement, site preferences, and
environmental and social impacts of Canada geese across an urban
landscape. M. Elizabeth
Rutledge, Christopher DePerno, Christopher Moorman, North Carolina State University;
Michael Begier, Brian Washburn, USDA Wildlife Services
3.
Would you please move?
Translocation of immature Bald Eagles to reduce bird strike risk. Alan Schumacher, Brian Washburn, John
Hart, USDA Wildlife Services
4.
As the worm turns: investigations into earthworm
control on airports. Thomas
Seamans, Glen Bernhardt, David Steyer, USDA Wildlife Services
5.
Green roofs in the airport environment: pleasant
dreams or nightmares? Ryan
Swearingin, Craig Pullins, Travis Guerrant, Brian Washburn, USDA Wildlife Services
6.
Assessing bird-aircraft strike hazard (BASH) risk
associated with breeding and migrating Osprey.
Brian Washburn, Thomas Olexa, Brian Dorr, USDA Wildlife Services
7.
Rapid dispersal and long term effect on resident Canada
geese by on-demand alarm and alert call playback reinforced with cracker/banger
shells. Philip
C. Whitford, Capital University, Biology Department
8.
Establishment of tall fescue cultivars on the Marine
Corps Air Station Cherry Point airfield.
Keri Yankus, Brian Washburn, Michael Begier, USDA Wildlife Services