Proceedings of the Ninety-Seventh Annual Meeting

Longer trips during and after the conference included (1) a tour of the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Refuge, (2) an open house at the Bird Division of the National Museum of Natural History, (3) a half-day trip to Huntly Meadows Wetland Park in Fairfax County, Virginia, (4) a full-day trip to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge and nearby migrant shorebird habitats, (5) a full-day trip to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, and (6) a two-day trip to Chincoteague NWR and Saxix Marsh, the largest remaining saltmarsh on the Eastern Shore. JED BURTT MENTORING GRANT (research and travel funds for undergraduate students and their mentors) Kathryn Marshall, Saint Mary's College, ''Documenting regional variation in genetic diversity in boreal forest bird populations threatened by climate change.''