Hi all, Tonight is supposed to be clear across much of the east and also a full moon, so was wondering if anyone was interested in trying to coordinate some kind of formal moon watch tonight. I was thinking for starters to get this off the ground possibly we could pick an hour or two tonight were we watch for 5 minute intervals 4 times an hour?? Anyone have any ideas on this or interested in trying to get something going? Hopefully for October we can have something a bit more formal, but I thought it would be a good opportunity to get this started, anyone game??
Best, Mike Michael Lanzone Biotechnology and Biomonitoring Lab Supervisor Carnegie Museum of Natural History Powdermill Avian Research Center 1847 Route 381 Rector, PA 15677 724.593.5521 Office [email protected] On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:20 AM, David La Puma <[email protected]>wrote: > I just wanted to pop my head in and say "thanks" to those who put this list > together (Chris? Andrew?). I'm stoked to be a part of it now. I'd love the > opportunity to work on a project combining moon watching with radar and > flight calls. As Mike said, "Let's do it!" > > in the meantime, I'll be posting nightly radar and migration > interpretations for NYC and NJ on www.woodcreeper.com , so come check it > out and contribute your FC observations to the discussion. > > Cheers > > David > ____________________________________________________ > David A. La Puma, Ph.D. > Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources > > Online Teaching Portfolio: > http://www.woodcreeper.com/teaching > > Lockwood lab: > http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo <http://rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlockwoo> > > Websites: > http://www.woodcreeper.com > http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com > > Photos: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew Farnsworth < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> FYI - I think there was a 1950 paper too, though I cannot remember. . >> .When everyone is ready, it is high time that we replicate Lowery and Newman >> (1966). With today's technology for synthesizing information, we could do >> it in a much more timely and large scale manner, AND we could combine it >> with FC and radar data in a way not possible in the 60s. . . >> >> Best, >> Andrew >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:20, Ted Floyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, all. >>> >>> I was recently contacted by somebody who's preparing an obituary for >>> William A. Rense, a leading solar physicist of the 20th century. Here's >>> one of his publications: >>> >>> Rense, W.A. 1946. Astronomy and ornithology. Popular Astronomy >>> 54(2):55-73. >>> >>> The article presents all the calculations necessary for "moonwatching," >>> that is, for determining the number of birds on nocturnal migration >>> within a given volume of sky. And, interestingly, this article precedes >>> by several month's George Lowery's famous 1946 paper on the same topic >>> (Auk 63:175-211). Lowery and Rense were colleagues, actually, so this >>> isn't a disputed-priority thing. But it's interesting how we remember >>> the famous Lowery paper, not the original Rense article. (Even though >>> Rense's appeared in a relatively high-profile venue. Auk... Popular >>> Astronomy... Please.) In a sense, this is also a tribute to Lowery's >>> commendable interdisciplinary outlook on science and nature. >>> >>> What's also cool about the Rense article is that it reminds us that all >>> of this had basically been worked out 40+ years earlier, during a >>> brief--and virtually completely forgotten--"golden age" of research on >>> nocturnal migration. Moonwatching techniques are well described in >>> papers published in 1902 (Bull. Wisc. Nat. Hist. Soc.), 1906 (Popular >>> Astronomy), and again in 1906 (Auk). >>> >>> (During that brief period of serious professional interest in the topic, >>> there is an intriguing paper--by one Henry H. Kopman--on, among other >>> things, the flight calls of wood-warblers. Farnsworth in a previous >>> life...) >>> >>> Anyhow, I thought some folks would be interested. I'll let y'all know >>> when the Rense obit. is published. >>> >>> Best, >>> Ted >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> Ted Floyd >>> Editor, Birding >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> >>> Please support the American Birding Association: Click on >>> http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=884482 to search the internet. >>> >>> Check out the American Birding Association on FaceBook: >>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22934255714 >>> >>> Check out the American Birding Association on Twitter: >>> http://twitter.com/abaoutreach >>> >>> Please visit the website of the American Birding Association: >>> http://www.aba.org >>> >>> -- >>> NFC-L List Info: >>> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME >>> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES >>> -- >>> >> >> > -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html --
