Education

ADULT PROGRAMS

Greenburgh Nature Center Program Partnership with the Sierra Club

The Lower Hudson Group of the Sierra Club has joined forces with the GNC to present a series of public programs for adults and students about global warming and climate change issues down in Westchester County.

Partial funding for these free programs is being provided by the County of Westchester. Programs start at 7:30 p.m. at the Main House. Handicapped parking is available. Light, locally-grown refreshments will be served at 7 p.m. Presentations are approximately 45 minutes in length with time afterwards for questions and discussion.

All other adult programs listed here are at the main house with the appropriate times and fees.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:30 PM

Tracking Nighttime Bird Migration Through Urban-Rural Corridors

Understanding how birds assess and utilize urban-rural corridors during migration is essential to their conservation, however, little is known about how birds evaluate the obstacles and utilize the resources available during migration, which generally occurs at night.  Using Greenburgh Nature Center as one of his research sites, Fordham University Professor Dr. Alan Clark has been conducting research, using night flight call recording data combined with small-scale radar data, to better understand how urban light and noise pollution affect migrating birds.  Dr. Clark’s talk will touch on both his research and its goal of providing important information to wildlife managers and city planners on how to improve conditions for birds migrating through urban landscapes.  (Sierra Club)