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Jennie Duberstein
Coordinator
Jennie is a wildlife biologist and conservation social scientist who has spent her professional career working to build partnerships for bird and habitat conservation across the United States and northwest Mexico. She has directed environmental education programs, developed community-based conservation projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region, developed and taught courses and workshops on bird identification, ecotourism, and bird monitoring, and has studied species including Double-crested Cormorant and wading birds in Sonora and Yellow-billed Cuckoos in Arizona. Jennie has also worked with young birders for many years, directing field courses, summer camps, and conferences, and generally helping to connect young birders with opportunities and each other. Jennie received her B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Virginia Tech and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment.
Emily Clark
Communications and Partnerships Specialist
Hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Emily’s career has taken her all over the country and throughout Latin America, including spending two years as a Research and Conservation Fellow at the Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies in Sonora, Mexico. Propelled by her fascination for bird behavior formed during her first field position monitoring endangered Piping Plovers, Emily has conducted research on numerous species of shorebirds, wading birds, and waterbirds including American Oystercatcher, Reddish Egret, and Roseate Tern. As a conservation biologist, Emily is passionate about learning everything she can about a species and the threats they face, and using that understanding to develop the best strategies to protect them. She has led environmental education and outreach programs for both children and adults focusing on topics such as garbage awareness and recycling, as well as participated in many community-based conservation programs like training students and indigenous community members on bird biology and how to conduct biological monitoring programs. Emily has facilitated communications between biologists and land managers in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as helped to develop species management plans for birds whose ranges cross political boundaries. Emily received her B.S. in Environmental Conservation from the University of New Hampshire and her M.S. from Tufts University.
Adam Hannuksela
Science Coordinator
Adam was born in Arizona, later moving throughout the western U.S. and northern Mexico. Adam received his B.S. from Evergreen State College, and his M.S. in Biology from Central Washington University. In 2002, Adam helped found the Navopatia Field Station in southern Sonora as the Director of Research. In that position, Adam developed an internship and training programs for both American and Mexican students to learn about conservation biology, natural history, and field biology. In 2006, he started a wintering landbird monitoring program that continues to be the longest running landbird monitoring program in the region. He has worked extensively with other partners in Mexico assisting with bird monitoring and conservation planning. While working in Sonora and Sinaloa for the past 17 years, Adam also worked half the year throughout the American west, allowing him to study and work with migratory birds throughout their annual life cycle. He has worked as a consultant and conservation biologist for universities, non-profits, all federal land management agencies, Native American tribes, state and municipal agencies, and private companies. Much of Adam’s work with birds includes extensive experience in shrub-steppe and other xeric habitats studying fire ecology, conifer removal, population biology, and grazing impacts on birds.