MONITORING BIRDS IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS: FROM OLYMPIA TO BORNEO
ALISON STYRING, PhD
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2026
Social time at 6:30 pm, Program at 7 pm
Or register below to view via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WCZ4hTTkRQGgTJ9RsiLGGA
Experience a far-ranging talk this month live with Alison Styring, PhD, Faculty, Environmental Studies, The Evergreen State College.
Alison Styring was always interested in animals. As a college student, when she first saw Crimson Rosellas and Galahs at bird feeders in Australia, she knew that she would return to that part of the world several times. Indeed, her graduate studies eventually led her to study woodpecker ecology and their response to logging in Malaysia. That work culminated in long-term relationships with both local and international researchers working in that part of the world. She continues to collaborate with that research team primarily in Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. In this talk, Styring will review some of the work that she has done both in Evergreen’s campus forest and in Borneo, including acoustic monitoring of birds with small programmable recorders that can be left in the field.
Dr. Alison Styring has been teaching at The Evergreen State College for over 20 years. During her first year at Evergreen, she worked with Dr. Dylan Fischer, PhD, to establish long-term forest and wildlife monitoring plots in Evergreen’s campus forest. Ever since that time, she has worked with Evergreen students to monitor and study the biology of birds on campus, focusing on the community ecology and long-term population trends of resident and migratory birds. Styring obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences from Louisiana State University in 2002; and her BA in Biology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1994.
There are two ways to enjoy this program. You can come to Temple Beth Hatfiloh (201 8th Ave. SE, Olympia) to watch the speaker live and enjoy the company of others OR you can register above to watch from home via Zoom.
Zoom will start at 7 pm and those coming to the Temple can arrive for social time at 6:30 pm.
Temple Beth Hatfiloh
201 8th Ave SE Olympia
Social time at 6:30 pm, Program at 7 pm
