Dr. Mark Colwell is a Professor in the Wildlife Department at Humboldt State University. He has studied shorebirds for 40 years, including a 20-yr study of the local population of the Snowy Plover. He has co-authored ~100 papers and published two books on shorebirds. Mark will present on the importance of Humboldt Bay within the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and along the Pacific Americas Flyway.