Speaker Todd Schneider

A native of Wisconsin, Todd worked for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources from 1985-1993 as a Fisheries Technician and Fisheries Biologist. Since 1993, he has been a Wildlife Biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, Wildlife Conservation Section where he specializes in bird conservation issues. Todd will be talking about Henslow's sparrow conservation in Georgia, particularly efforts by the Wildlife Resources Division over the past dozen years. These efforts include surveys on Wildlife Management Areas to find and track populations, research to define habitat structure and needs, movement patterns and other life history features, diet analysis, and attempts to develop automated habitat searching and predictive models using remote sensing via satellite data and other high tech mechanisms