5:30PM - Social/pizza

6:30PM - Annual business meeting

7:00PM - Program

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Whither and Wherefore the American Three-toed Woodpecker in New York

Dr. Jeremy Kirchman is the Curator of Birds and Mammals at the New York State Museum in Albany, NY, and Affiliate Professor of Biology at the State University of New York at Albany. Kirchman grew up in Illinois and studied biology at Illinois Wesleyan University. He went on to study bird evolution at Louisiana State University (MS in 1997). It was at LSU that Kirchman first became interested in museum collections and specimen-based research.  He was a staff researcher at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and a Graduate Fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Conservation Genomics. In 2006 he completed his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Florida, where he studied ancient DNA from extinct, flightless rails. Dr. Kirchman’s current work at NYSM is focused on the continued growth and preservation of natural history collections, and on the evolution and extinction of boreal forest birds.