Author Archives: Auriel Fournier

The FireBird team has published a new paper on the use of autonomous recording units for detecting eastern black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) vocalizations. The paper, titled “Variation in Detection Distance of Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) Vocalizations by Autonomous Recording Units”, was published in the journal Waterbirds. This study comes as the firstContinue reading “Variation in Detection Distance of Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) Vocalizations by Autonomous Recording Units”

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Check out the newest issue of our newsletter providing updates from the summer 2023 field season and other cool things!

On September 6th Chelsea Kross led a webinar for end users that covers our climate work, and included a panel discussion with team members with expertise across the Gulf of Mexico geography. A recording is available here.

Our first project newsletter covering up thorugh our Summer 2022 work can be downloaded here.

We’d like to extend an invitation for our adaptive management virtual workshop and request that you reserve the following dates on your calendar: 19-22 October.   If you work with any of our focal species (Mottled Duck, Black Rail, Yellow Rail), in high marshes in the Gulf of Mexico, and/or with prescribed fire, you’re inputContinue reading “2021 Adaptive Resource Management Meeting”

Full Title: Fire effects in Gulf of Mexico marshes: historical perspectives, management, and monitoring of mottled ducks and black and yellow rails The Team: Auriel M.V. Fournier (lead investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, auriel@illinois.edu), Mark Woodrey (lead investigator, Mississippi State University), Kristine Evans (Mississippi State University), John Andrew Nyman (Louisiana State University Agricultural Center), RobertContinue reading “Grant Announcement”