OBCI Events
Lights Out Columbus Monitoring Program
Starting March 15th
Volunteers needed to help survey for bird collision victims in downtown Columbus. Full details
Who We Are
Who are we? Here is more information on some of the folks who keep OBCI running!
Paul Rodewald
OBCI Chair
Paul Rodewald is an Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. His research interests focus on the ecology, behavior, and biogeography of birds, with a strong emphasis on bird conservation. An important component of his research has been studies of the ecology and habitat relationships of landbirds during migratory stopover. He teaches classes in wildlife habitat management, bird identification, and avian ecology and conservation. Paul is Director of the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II and Chair of OBCI.
Julie Shieldcastle
OBCI Vice-chair
Julie Shieldcastle is the Conservation Director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, which is engaged in research and intensive long-term monitoring of bird populations and public education efforts. During the 1990s she was the Chair of the Ohio Working Group of Partners in Flight, a group concerned with the effective conservation of landbirds in Ohio and a precursor to the all-bird conservation efforts of OBCI. She was instrumental in organizing early efforts to establish OBCI.
David Scott
Executive Council Member
David P. Scott is the Executive Administrator of Wildlife Management for the ODNR, Division of Wildlife. He served as Project Leader for Upland Wildlife Research from 1992 to 2003. David has worked on numerous conservation projects including, steering committee member for Ohio Working Group of Partners in Flight, founding member of OBCI (along with BSBO & Audubon Ohio), chairman of the Eastern Management Unit Dove Technical Committee (2004-2006), and co-chair of the National Mourning Dove Task Force (IAFWA).
Mike Reynolds
Co-Chair Conservation Planning and Research Committee
Mike Reynolds is a Wildlife Research Biologist at the Waterloo Wildlife Research Station in Athens, Ohio. He has participated in studies to estimate survival and the effects of hunting on Ruffed Grouse, Wild Turkey, and White-Tailed deer. He has recently assumed the role of Forest Wildlife Habitat Coordinator and will work to implement forest focus area and forest habitat tactical plans on public lands in Ohio. Mike represents the Division of Wildlife on the Cerulean Warbler technical working group and steering committees of the Lower Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Plain (BCR 13) and Appalachian Mountains (BCR 28) Bird Conservation Regions.
Peter Whan
Executive Committee Member
Peter Whan has a degree in recreation and wildlife and has been working at the Edge of Appalachia for 16 years, five years as an employee of the Cincinnati Natural History Museum and 10 years with The Nature Conservancy. He worked as field biologist in Massachusetts at the Manomet Bird Observatory and surveyed 310 square miles of territory for the original Ohio Bird Atlas for ODNR, one year as a naturalist in the Florida Everglades and 3 years with the Conservancy as the Director of Preserves for the South Fork/Shelter Island Chapter in Long Island, New York.
Amanda Conover
OBCI Coordinator
Amanda started with OBCI in September of 2011. She received a B.S. in Environmental Resource Management from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Delaware. She has worked with a number of public and private organizations in areas including avian conservation and biogeochemistry.
Suzanne Cardinal
Former OBCI Coordinator
Suzanne worked with OBCI from 2005 to 2007. She received a B.S. from The Evergreen State College and an M.S. in Biology from Northern Arizona University. She spent six seasons studying the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher in Arizona and Nevada, she banded birds at numerous banding stations from Alaska to upstate New York, and she has worked on other conservation projects throughout the country.
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