Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird recipient announced

Submitted by Brandi Berg
Phone: 450-8033
01/19/05

The University of Alaska Foundation announces the recipient of the 2005 Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant.

Audrey R. Taylor a graduate student attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded the grant. She will receive $15,000 for her research regarding Pre-migratory Distribution and Movement of Shorebirds Staging on the Arctic Coastal Plain during the 2005 field season.

Grants are to be used for the support of research on bird species found either permanently or seasonally in Alaska or its coastal waters, including their biology, general ecology and habitat relationships.

This grant was established in 1981 with a gift from ARCO to honor the memory of Angus Gavin who served as an environmental advisor to Atlantic Richfield Company. He was hand-picked by ARCO Chairman, Robert O. Anderson to observe, categorize and quantify the little known flora and fauna of Prudhoe Bay in 1969. Gavin was to draw conclusions, pro or con, about the impact of oil field development on the ecology of the North Slope and to recommend operational changes that would minimize or negate any adverse effects on the environment.

For more information contact:
University of Alaska Foundation
Attn: Brandi Berg
910 Yukon Drive, Suite 206
PO Box 755080
Fairbanks, AK 99775-5080
907-450-8033 phone
907-450-8031 fax