Dick has been a professor in biology and wildlife biology at the University of Montana since 1977. His primary research focus has been on the ecology of migratory songbirds during summer in the Rockies, winter in Mexico, and migration in the Southwest. He insists that birds have a lot to tell us about land stewardship, and all we have to do is listen.

Dick's Home Page and CV

Jock has been with the Landbird Monitoring Program since 1995 as data manager and program coordinator.  He is currently helping to develop LBMP habitat models as well as coordinate field work.  He has long been involved in developing a statewide Coordinated Bird monitoring program and is the past Chair of Montana Partners in Flight.

amy.cilimburg@mso.umt.edu

Amy received her M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana in 2001. She i s helping to lead the ASC, and coordinates the Landbird Monitoring Program with Jock Young and Kristina Smucker. Amy also helps direct our education and outreach efforts and develops and updates our web site.  For 2007 Amy is spearheading the Big Hole restoration monitoring and is initiating a citizen monitoring program for Flammulated Owls.  Wren, pictured here as a 2 year old, just started first grade!

As of September 2007, Amy is splitting her time between the Avian Science Center and new work with Montana Audubon as their Global Warming Outreach Organizer. 

Anna Noson

GIS Specialist and Program Coordinator

anna.noson@umontana.edu

Anna received her M.S in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University in 2001.  She conducts GIS analysis for any number of ASC projects.  She has been involved in developing our rivering monitoring program and now oversees a multi-taxa monitoring program along the British Columbia coast for Round River. 

Anna's 's first daughter, Sonja, was born in February 2006.  But you see the late "Max" picured here.

Rob Fletcher

Assistant Professor University of Florida

robert.fletcher@ufl.edu

Rob recieved his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 2003. He currently runs the Madison/Missouri Riparian Study for the ASC and is spearheading our habitat modeling efforts.  His interests include spatial ecology, habitat restoration, population and community ecology, animal behavior, habitat fragmentation, and statistics.

Rob has left Montana for a tenure-track landscape ecology position at the University of Florida Gainsville which began July 2007.  We dearly miss him already.  You can contact him at the email above or at his new office: 352-846-0632.  He will, however, continue working with us on habitat modeling, and we hope to study birds with him along the Madison and Missouri rivers in the summer.

Fletcher Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Kristina Smucker

Program Coordinator

kristina.smucker@mso.umt.edu

Kristina received her M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana in 2003 where she studied the effects of wildfire on songbirds.  At the ASC she has helped to supervise our Joint Fire Sciences Post-burn Study, assist with the Landbird Monitoring Program, and has been very involved in our eduction efforts, especially in creating and running the Birds-Eye View Education Program.  In fact, Kristina just won an award for this work from the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program.  Congratulations!

As of September 2007 Kristina has once again headed back to Ecuador to teach with Round River.  She will remain one here on our staff page because we really do hope to have her back someday.

Zia Maumenee

ArcIMS Programmer

zia.maumenee@gmail.com

Zia received her M.A. in Geography from the University of Montana in 2004. Her background includes international research in Internet based GIS for resource management. She is currently developing Internet based GIS websites for The University of Montana the Avian Science Center and also the Herbarium.

Program Coordinator

megan.fylling@mso.umt.edu

Megan has been an intrepid field technician for the ASC since 2004.  She's proved herself so organized and dedicated that we decided to hire her on to help corrdinate our field programs.  She works primarily on the Avian Fire Study and is helping to coordinate programs in Kristina's absence.