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GLOBE/Operation RubyThroat Workshops
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CarolinaBirds)
- Subject: GLOBE/Operation RubyThroat Workshops
- From: BILL HILTON JR The Piedmont Naturalist <hilton@hiltonpond.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 20:31:09 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
GLOBE Teacher Training Workshops Available Through Operation RubyThroat
If you've ever wanted to be part of The GLOBE Program but haven't had
time for the full week of training in soils, hydrology, atmosphere,
climate, and other earth science protocols, "Operation RubyThroat:
The Hummingbird Project" now offers an alternative.
Operation RubyThroat--administered by Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont
Natural History near York SC--is the first GLOBE protocol that
involves animal behavior observations. Bill Hilton Jr., as principal
investigator for Operation RubyThroat, is now authorized to train
teachers in GLOBE hummingbird protocols and to designate those
educators' schools as GLOBE sites.
Hilton will hold a GLOBE/Operation RubyThroat Teacher Training
Workshop during the annual fall meeting of the South Carolina Science
Council and other professional organizations, but he's also available
at other times for workshops at schools South Carolina, and beyond.
If you have at least six teachers at a school or within a school
district who would like to be trained in the GLOBE hummingbird
protocols in time to use them during 2003, contact Hilton via
mailto:info@rubythroat.org to arrange a three-hour workshop after
school, on a Saturday, or during the summer. Teacher participants
receive site identification codes that allow any student at their
schools to submit hummingbird data to the GLOBE Web site. A $20 fee
per teacher helps offset costs of materials and travel; an additional
fee may be requested for travel and/or lodging for more distant sites.
By participating in Operation RubyThroat, you and your students will
join others from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and all seven Central
American countries as they monitor migration and feeding and nesting
behavior in Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. You can view the GLOBE
hummingbird protocols at http://www.globe.gov and glean a wealth of
information about hummingbirds from the Operation RubyThroat Web site
at http://www.rubythroat.org. Please also visit the Web site for
Hilton Pond Center at http://www.hiltonpond.org.
(Please forward this message to listervs, to schools and school
districts, and to individuals who may be interested.)
Happy Hummingbird Watching!
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR., Executive Director
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road, York, South Carolina 29745 USA
hilton@hiltonpond.org, (803) 684-5852, eFax: (503) 218-0845
The mission of Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is "to
conserve plants, animals, habitats, and other natural components of
the Piedmont Region of the eastern United States through observation,
scientific study, and education for students of all ages." Please
visit our web sites (courtesy of Comporium.net) at
http://www.hiltonpond.org and http://www.rubythroat.org ("Operation
RubyThroat: The Hummingbird Project").
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset." BHjr.