Nils Warnock spent 9 years studying a winter population of Dunlin at Bolinas Lagoon, CA, in collaboration with Gary Page and the Point Reyes Bird Observatory; the last 4 years of Warnock’s research were for his Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Davis, and San Diego State University (1994). He has spent several years in the Alaskan Arctic studying shorebirds and other birds. Currently he is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Simon Fraser University. Present research covers shorebird breeding biology in the Great Basin, winter population ecology of Western Sandpipers in Baja, Mexico, and migration strategies and conservation of Western Sandpipers along the Pacific Flyway. Current address: ERS/186, 1000 Valley Rd., University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512-0013.
Robert Gill is a wildlife research biologist and directs the shorebird research program of the National Biological Service in Alaska. He received his training at the Avian Biology Laboratory, San Jose State University, then worked in the San Francisco Bay area and since 1976 has worked in Alaska. His studies of shorebirds over the ensuing 20 years have focused on a suite of poorly known species and on the postbreeding ecology and migration of small shorebirds, including the Dunlin. Gill and his colleagues are currently inventorying sites in Alaska as part of a global flyway network for shorebirds. More progress would probably be made on all of these endeavors if Gill played less ice hockey and cycled fewer kilometers. Current address: National Biological Service, Alaska Science Center, 1011 East Tudor Rd., Anchorage, AK 99503.
