Hannah Clipp - 2020

Hannah Clipp discovered a passion for birding and bird research seven years ago during a summer spent studying dickcissels and other grassland songbirds on Konza Prairie in Kansas. In 2018, Hannah completed her Master’s degree in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where she used weather surveillance radar data to study land bird migration and stopover ecology along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Hannah as completed her doctoral degree in Natural Resources Science at West Virginia University. Hannah’s dissertation research focused on the effects of climate change and landscape-scale forest management on bird communities, abundance, and nest success in the Appalachian Mountains.  While Covid cancelled the 2020 festival we pleased that Hannah will was able to attend the 2022 Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival and present on how weather surveillance radar systems are being utilized to generate data on bird and other wildlife migrations.  You can follow Hannah’s field exploits on her Facebook platform – All That Wildlife.