Joseph R. Jehl, Jr., studied geology at Cornell University and zoology at the University of Michigan. His thesis research on shorebird systematics involved studies of shorebirds at Churchill, Manitoba, in 1964–1967. From 1967 to 1977, he was Curator of Birds and Mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Subsequently he was Director of Research/Senior Research Biologist at Hubbs Sea-World Research Institute. His interest in the biology of shorebirds and seabirds has led to research in southern South America, Antarctica, Central America, and the saline lakes of western North America, as well as subarctic Canada. Current address: Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, 2595 Ingraham Street, San Diego, CA 92109. E-mail: JJehl@hswri.org.
Joanna Klima is a native of Poland, where she graduated from Warsaw University. Since 1984, she has been taking part in ornithological research projects in Europe and the U.S. She studied passerines and raptors, but major interests are shorebirds. She spent 4 seasons in the Alaskan Arctic and Canadian subarctic studying their biology and behavior and co-authored the BNA accounts on Stilt Sandpiper and Hudsonian Godwit. Her current interests focus on avian behavior. Current address: 210 Cypress Street, first floor, Rochester, NY 14620-2304. E-mail: skulski@frontiernet.net.
Ross E. Harris obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and assisted a National Museum of Canada field expedition to Schefferville, Quebec, in discovering nesting dowitchers. That led to his graduate thesis on the species at the University of Ottawa. For most of the past 20 years he has worked for LGL Limited, environmental research associates, an environmental consulting company based in King City, Ontario. He has conducted studies on shorebirds, seabirds, marine mammals, bird hazards to aircraft safety, and oil industry-related environmental-impact assessments. These studies have taken him throughout northern North America from Newfoundland and the Labrador Sea, across the Canadian Arctic, to the Alaskan North Slope and Beaufort Sea. Current address: 19 Chicora Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1T7. E-mail: harriscipriani@iprimus.ca.
