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<font size="+2">The People of the Radar Ornithology Lab at Clemson</font></b>
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<center><a name="Sid">Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Director <a href="mailto:sagth@clemson.edu"><img src="images/mailbox1.gif" border="0"></a></center></a><br>
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<img src="images/sid.jpg" alt="Sid Gauthreaux">
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Gauthreaux grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the age of 10 he became interested in birds.
During his high school years he started looking at bird migration on the newly commissioned Weather Surveillance Radar (WSR-57) in New Orleans.
He thought that if this new radar could detect rain, it could surely detect birds which in essence were large drops of rain.
This interest continued through his college years at the University of New Orleans (1959-1963). In 1963 he began his graduate studies in radar ornithology at Louisiana State University under the direction of Dr. George Lowery and received his MS in 1965.
He continued using WSR-57 weather radar to quantify trans-Gulf migration for his dissertation research and received his PhD in 1968.
After LSU he did post-doctoral work with Dr. Eugene Odum at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia.
In 1970, he accepted a faculty position at Clemson University. He has continued his radar studies of migration, and established the Clemson University Radar Ornithology Laboratory (CUROL) in 1990.
In the spring of 1992, he first visited the WSR-88D (NEXRAD) station in Dickinson, TX and found that this new doppler weather surveillance radar was more powerful, more sensitive and much more technologically sophisticated than the old WSR-57. Moreover it not only provided information on the density of bird migration but also provided information on the direction and speed of migratory movements.
With support from the Department of Defense, in 1995 CUROL began archiving bird movements displayed on NEXRADs in the national network.
This database has aided in the development of national and regional maps of bird migration and maps of important migration stopover areas within 60 miles of the radar station.
In addition forecast models of migration density are being developed, and calibration of NEXRAD displays of different types of bird movements continues.
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<Center><a name="Carroll">Carroll Belser, Technician <a href="mailto:belserc@clemson.edu"><img src="images/mailbox1.gif" border="0"></a></center></a><br>
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Carroll Belser is a research associate at CUROL. She received her BA from Mary Baldwin College in 1975 and her MS in Wildlife Biology from Clemson in 1981.
She has worked with several bird species over the years. Her master's research documented the seasonal time budget of the Eastern Bluebird.
After completing her Master's she worked for the US Forest Service on Red-cockaded Woodpeckers and later at the Charleston Museum on wading birds, Boat-tailed Grackles, and migrant songbirds.
Carroll has also worked as an interpreter at the Belle W. Baruch Nature Center, a nature tour guide at Kiawah Island, and as a research assistant on bird collision with communication tower and power line projects.
In 1990 Carroll returned to Clemson and began work at the Clemson University Radar Ornithology Laboratory.
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<img src="images/carroll.jpg" alt="Carroll Belser">
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<Center><a name="Alan">Alan Cunningham, Technician, Webbist</a> <a href="mailto:acunnin@hubcap.clemson.edu"><img src="images/mailbox1.gif" border="0"></a></center><br>
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Alan Cunningham received his M.S. in Botany in May 2000. He came to CUROL in April 1998 with <a href="http://www.beastieboys.com">skills</a> in web page construction and <a href="http://www.esri.com">GIS</a>.
Since then, He has continued work on these fronts for the lab, as well as network and OS management.<br>
He graduated <a href="http://www.emory.edu">Emory</a> with an B.S. in Biology in 1993.
After working in <a href="http://www.avana.net/~linnie">Atlanta</a> for some time, he came to Clemson in 1993 to study the landscape ecology of plant pollination.
He currently lives in Greenville, SC with his girlfriend Kim, their two cats <font color="olive">W<font color="black">id<font color="yellow">g<font color="black">et</font></font> and <font color="#DDD673">Bowie</font>.
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<Center><a name="Andy">Andy Farnsworth, Masters Candidate</a> <a href="mailto:afarnsw@clemson.edu"><img src="images/mailbox1.gif" border="0"></a></center><br>
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Andrew <blink>Jacobin</blink> Farnsworth landed at CUROL in August 1999 as a master's student in Zoology, examining patterns of nocturnal bird migration using acoustic sensors and radar imagery. He received a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University in 1995.
Since 1995, he has worked as a part-time tour leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours; and he formed and managed the unique, "world music" band <a href="http://www.mectapus.com">Mectapus</a>,
with which he still performs.
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<img src="images/andy.jpg" alt="Andy Farnsworth">
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<Center><a name="Don">Donald Van Blaricom, GIS Technician</center></a><br>
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Donald Van Blaricom has been the GIS analyst at CUROL for a year. Don received his BS in Forest Resources from Clemson University in 1989.
In 1995 he earned his MS from Clemson in Forest Resources in remote sensing and photogrammetry.
He is currently independently employed as a GIS Analyst. In his leisure time he enjoys gardening and foreign travel.
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<Center><a name="Stephen">Stephen Jones, Graduate Student</center></a><br>
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<Center><a name="Milind">Milind Koli, Programmer</center></a> <br>
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Milind Koli joined the lab in the spring of 2000. He is currently working as the computer programmer at CUROL.
He received his degree at Bombay University in computer engineering. Currently, he is working on a MS degree in Computer Science at Clemson University.
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<Center><a name="Greg">Greg Black, Student</center></a><br>
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Greg Black joined CUROL in the fall of 1999, and he is currently pursuing his BS in Biological Sciences at Clemson University.
He is hoping to apply to medical school in the fall of 2000.
His duties in the lab are assisting with radar downloads and building bibliographical databases.
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<img src="images/greg.jpg" alt="Greg Black">
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