Young, Gifted & Wild About Birds with Hannah L. Clipp, Ph.D.
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March 6, 2025
Hannah L. Clipp, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station
Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees: Insights into the Effects of Global Climate Change on Forest Birds of Eastern North America
Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m.
Global climate change threatens biodiversity and bird populations, and predicting future impacts is challenging but necessary. Hannah will describe three of her research projects in New England and the Appalachians.
The projects are designed to improve understanding of how climate change affects forest bird populations in eastern North America; and how those birds are affected by other landscape changes and habitat associations. She’ll explain the role of land cover and tree species distributions and they relate to the forest bird communities of New England.
Hannah Clipp is a postdoctoral research fellow with the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station. She graduated in 2023 with a PhD in Natural Resources Science from West Virginia University. Her dissertation research focused on long-term responses in bird communities and abundance to forest management and climate change in the Appalachian Mountains. Hannah is also an avid birder and nature enthusiast. She formerly served as the President of the Mountaineer chapter of the National Audubon Society in West Virginia and is currently an active board member.
