PSO Officers, Board Members, and Staff
Officers
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Board Members
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Committees
Awards - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Manage the Certificate of Appreciate program
- Manage the Conservation and Poole Award programs
- Prepare appropriate honor to members deserving recognition in PA Ornithology or for outstanding service within PSO
Nominating committee - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Set goals for adequate talent and diversity for the slate of Directors
- Recruit new Directors
- Select and recruit officer candidates and all Committee Chair and Vice Chair positions
- Recruit committee members
Publicity/ Outreach - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Promote PSO and assign responsibilities to carry it out
- Promotion of meetings, counts and other PSO sponsored events
- Coordinate with Membership and Web/Social Committees
- Liaison for bird and ornithological organizations
- Help manage website content and traffic generation
- Manage the Face Book Page
- Manage relationships/links with other websites (PA Ebird, Bird Clubs, etc…)
- Recruit new members, retain existing members, and promote PSO membership benefits
Finance - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Develop and implement strategies to welcome new members
- Solicit comments and recommendations from membership
- Keep track on member data and provide monthly reports to the Board
- Develop annual PSO budget for board approval
- Report actual to budget financials reports
- Make recommendations to the Board regarding financial issues and fundraising efforts
Annual Meeting - Chair: Vernon Gauthier
- Select meeting sites
- Plan and setup annual meetings
- Subcommittees - Vendors, Banquet speaker and afternoon presentations (possibly combine with Research Committee), Registration, Silent Auction, PSO Sales, Field Trips
Newsletter - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Obtain monthly summary report from each committee
- Solicit the Directors and Committees for inclusion of all activities and relevant information
- Solicit articles from Directors and membership showcasing PA ornithology
Journal - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Solicit articles from Directors and membership showcasing PA ornithology
- Coordinate with Research and Conservation Committees for peer reviewed research articles
Research and Conservation - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Identify conservation issues affecting PA appropriate for PSO involvement
- Identify and then communicate conservation issues resulting from data trends
- Actively communicate with PGC and PABS-OTC (nominations, concerns etc)
- Write white papers/positions on issues in PA
- Write conservation articles for newsletter
- Solicit student speakers for PSO annual meeting to highlight current bird research in state, and to provide a forum for ornithologists just beginning their career
- Facilitate large-scale volunteer efforts for bird monitoring and research
- Provide small grants to student researchers
- Outreach to universities to solicit student members
- Review research/scientific papers submitted for publication
- Subcommittee- Education
Records and Data - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Publish Pennsylvania Birds
- Assure that records are tabulated and archived
- Create and discuss new and innovative ideas on data collection, storage, review, and accessibility.
- Subcommittees- PA EBird, PORC, Monitoring Data (WRS, PAMC, Others)
Functions (Field Trip) Committee - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Coordinate field trips for the annual meeting
- Manage other PSO sponsored outings shorebird outings, warbler outings, grassland outings, out of state trips (pelagic and winter boreal birds for example)
- Assist with PSO sponsored educational programs
Education Committee - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Promote education in birding, and birding resources around Pennsylvania
Conservation Committee - Chair: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Promote avian conservation projects across the Commonwealth
- To raise awareness of conservation causes that impact Pennsylvania's avifauna
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