Frontiers in Ornithology Youth Symposium in Seattle, WA - Oct 4, 2025

I am on the board of directors for The Frontiers in Ornithology Association and part of the of the organizing committee for the 2025 Youth Symposium. This is the first time it will ever be held on the west coast and we hope to bring it to Canada and around the world soon. We have a great list of adult and youth speakers; including some from BC, like Indigenous birder and lawyer Jeffrey Nicholls who will speak on birding from an Indigenous perspective, environmental law and activism. You can read the full list of speakers HERE Our adult keynote is Steve Hampton and our youth keynotes are Lara Tseng and Song Han Ngo. The primary mission of this event is to focus on ornithology, conservation science and related academic pursuits. The symposium does not focus on birding, bird identification techniques, or listing birds, but instead on cutting-edge technologies being used in avian research and study, careers in ornithology, and how to pursue that focus in higher education,...