Fall Meeting - October 15, 2010
Please join us on for our fall meeting on Friday, October 15 at 7:30 PM at the Geological Lecture Hall at Harvard University, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wildlife Photographer Shawn Carey will present “Scenes from the BP Gulf Oil Disaster”, firsthand accounts, images and video of the Louisiana Coast where he documented the effects of the nation's largest oil disaster. Joining in the discussion will be our special guest, Drew Wheelan, American Birding Association Gulf Coast Conservation Coordinator.
Members and guests are cordially invited. Admission is free.
Parking at the 52 Oxford Street Parking Garage will NOT be available. For alternate parking, transportation options, directions and additional program details, see below.
Donations to the Birder's Exchange Program will be collected. Please bring your used binoculars and other birding equipment. For more information on the Birder's Exchange Program, go to www.aba.org/bex/ *
OUR SPEAKERS
Shawn Carey moved for his home in Erie, Pennsylvania to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986. He started watching birds in 1988 and over time he combined his interest in birds with photography skills. By 1994 he and good friend Jim Grady started Migration Productions as a way to present their multi-image slide presentations to a live audience. Programs have been presented to natural history and photographic organizations including Mass Audubon, ABA, Manomet, HMANA, Eastern Mass Hawk Watch, Waterbird Society and many local bird and photo clubs. Migration Productions offers the finest quality bird/wildlife programs with stunning photographs, video, sound tracks, and interviews with many people involved with bird watching and natural history topics. For additional information about Migration Productions, visit their web site: http://www.migrationproductions.com Shawn's photos have been published in the Boston Globe, New York Times, Science magazine, Mass Audubon Sanctuary magazine, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary magazine and many others over the last 10+ years.
In 1997 he started teaching bird photography workshops (Fundamentals of Bird Photography) for Massachusetts Audubon and four years ago began teaching a summer three day field school workshop at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary.
Drew Wheelan grew up chasing butterflies and catching frogs in the swamps of Southern Rhode Island. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science. Evergreen does not have majors, but his course equivalent would have earned him a degree in wildlife biology and a minor in Spanish. Since 1996, Drew has worked with birds throughout the United States, as well as in Amazonian Peru and Ecuador, as well as Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico.
In the year 2000, as Drew was preparing to enter graduate school he discovered that he had cancer while in one of the most remote regions of the Amazon. The subsequent fight with this illness lent to him a fresh perspective on life and also led him away from a life in academia. Since 2000 Drew has continued to work with birds, but has broadened his scope a bit to include fisheries work, in research as well as harvesting. This work has included studies in Salmon ecology and habitat on the east slope of the Washington Cascades as well as lobster recovery in New England following the North Cape oil spill.
Drew has always thought that he has a unique view of life and an important voice to share with the world, and has endeavored to begin a writing career for the last 9 years. His unique blend of experience and a desire to write have combined to offer a perfect niche for his reporting on the Gulf Oil Disaster. Drew arrived in the Gulf on May 16th to report on the spill’s effects on birds and bird habitat for the American Birding Association. Since that time he has strived to produce an objective and truthful representation of what he observed.
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Harvard University has reserved its parking facilities for parents weekend, so our usual parking at the 52 Oxford Street Parking Garage is NOT available.
Parking is available by permit through Harvard University for the night of our event for a 5 dollar fee. The closest parking is directly across the street from the lecture hall location at the SEAS parking lot and alternative parking locations are available if you choose. You must make your own arrangements. Instructions to obtain a parking permit are below. Please note that this is the same arrangement we had for the October 2007 lecture meeting at the MCZ.
As always, parking is also available on the street.
The best way to get into Harvard Square is by public transportation. MBTA System Map is available here - http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/ If you are taking the MBTA Subway – take the Red Line to the Harvard Square Station and then a short walk across historic Harvard Yard to the MCZ Lecture Hall on 24 Oxford Street - http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/lines/stations/?stopId=12084 You can also take the MBTA Commuter Rail from areas in and around your neighborhood. For those of you coming into to South Station you can access the Red Line directly from the station and proceed to the Harvard Square Station. For those of you coming into North Station - take the Green Line to Park Street or Orange Line to Downtown Crossing to access the Red Line and the Harvard Square Station. MBTA Commuter Rail Info - http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/
PARKING PERMITS
Parking permits can be obtained for the BBC Meeting Friday 10/15/10 at Harvard. A one evening parking permit can be obtained through the Harvard website. Cost is $5.
Parking permits go on sale, starting 2 weeks before the date of the meeting – October 2.
In order to obtain a permit, follow these steps:
1. Go to https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl
2. Click on “Visitor” (unless you are a Harvard employee)
3. Register - If this is your first time using the system, click "Click here to register". Complete registration information including user name, password, name, phone # and email address - If you have used the system before, login with your user name and password
4. Enter data about the event: - Department: OE/MCV/Herbaria, Code: 2017
5. Select a parking lot from dropdown menu: - SEAS 5:00 p.m-11:30 p.m. weeknight (closest lot, across the street from the MCZ - see link to map on this screen) - if the SEAS (Sch. of Engineering and Applied Sciences) permits are sold out, parking is also available in the Littauer lot (code is LITT). The LITT lot is also across the street from the MCZ. Permits begin at 7 PM for this lot.
6 Affiliation: Event Participant - Brookline Bird Club
7. Permit date: October 15, 2010
8. Enter Plate Number
9. Complete payment information
Enter “parking map” in the search field for a map of all parking lots, if you wish.
IMPORTANT: Print the permit and display on dashboard the night of the meeting.
