1 April (Tuesday): 9:15–10:15, Opening plenary

Birds of Latvia through times: the way to monitoring of country’s avifauna

Oskars Keišs, Ainārs Auniņš, Viesturs Ķerus

Oskars Keišs (1974, Jelgava, Latvia) obtained his BSc, MSc and doctoral degree in biology at the University of Latvia in Riga, where he is working at the Institute of Biology since 2001. He has been also TEMPUS exchange student at the University of Helsinki, and Fulbright student at the Utah State University (USA). His current research topics are interactions of breeding and (1) migration behavior in Common Starling, (2) monitoring of birds on agricultural landscapes and (3) animal navigation.

 

1 April (Tuesday): 13:30–14:30, Afternoon plenary

Biodiversity monitoring context and directions in relation to EU policies

Nestor Fernandez

2 April (Wednesday): 9:00–10:00, Morning plenary

Using ornithological field data to predict rapid evolution of migration in response to climate change

Jane M. Reid

Jane Reid obtained her BA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, then her PhD in behavioural ecology at the University of Glasgow. She held research fellowship positions at the University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge and University of Aberdeen. She is now a professor of population and evolutionary ecology mostly at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology, and partly at the University of Aberdeen. Her main interest is in understanding how bird populations will respond to environmental changes, through combinations of ecological, phenotypic and evolutionary change. 

4 April (Friday): 9:00–10:00, Morning plenary

Using bird data for conservation prioritisation

Heini Kujala

4 April (Friday): 15:30–16:30, Afternoon plenary

The integration of data, the spirit of the EBCC and challenges for the future

Sergi Herrando

I presented my PhD at the University of Barcelona in 2001 and have worked on the development of bird atlases, monitoring projects and indicators since then. From 2012 to 2021, I was one of the coordinators of the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 and I am currently involved in the development of the EBBA Live concept, aimed to build European bird distribution maps on a frequent basis. I combine my position as scientific director at ICO with my research at CREAF. I am a member of the EBCC Board since 2022.