Bios

John Gerwin

John is Curator of Birds at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. He has been with the Museum since 1988. For the past 14 years he has primarily studied birds in a variety of managed landscapes. He currently works on the breeding biology of southern appalachian Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Swainson's Warbler (in bottomland hardwoods), Painted Bunting (in a semi-urban landscape), and population genetics of selected southern appalachian species. He is the chairperson for the NC Scientific Council on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Birds. He has served on the Board for Wake Audubon Society since 2003. He also co-leads nature-watching trips, both locally and internationally.

Sarah Green

Sarah received her B.S. degree in Criminal Justice, with a minor in Field Biology, from Guilford College, in 2006. Since then, she has worked as a field technician on 3 projects, involving Swainson's Warbler, Painted Bunting, and White-throated Sparrow. She assists with all the technical aspects: bird capture and banding; taking blood, crop-flushing, radio telemetry and GPS; vegetation data collection, and DNA extraction and subsequent polymerase chain reaction processing. In addition to the PBOT duties she assists with bunting surveys for a larger range-wide survey effort. For PBOT work, she covers the area from Beaufort, NC to north Charleston, SC.

Megan Demers-Schaefer

Megan has a four year association with the ornithology department at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. She is very pleased to be coordinating the PBOT efforts again this year, and she looks forward to working with you. Please do not hesitate to contact her with any questions or concerns that you may have.