Caitlin Robinson Nilsen - 2008

Caitlin became a passionate birder while working as a research assistant in the rainforest of Australia. Her passion for shorebirds grew while walking the beaches every day for 6 months in her work monitoring the piping plover population on Long Island, N.Y. She completed her master’s thesis based on the western snowy plover use of former commercial salt ponds in the South San Francisco Bay at San Jose State University. Caitlin is now the Waterbird Program Director at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory. She is currently researching California Gulls and their impact on Snowy Plovers. She also manages an Avian Disease Prevention Program for the SFBBO.