year project in partnership with the Multi-Lateral Investment Fund within the Inter-American Development Bank and BNT to develop bird-based tourism on Inagua and Andros islands. Additionally, former BNT Executive Director and accomplished international scientist, David G Campbell, is the featured presenter at the 2014 conference. This year’s theme for the conference ‘Discovering our Ephemeral Isles’ was inspired by the book ‘The Ephemeral Islands’ which was written by Campbell. The BNT is encouraging the public, not just scientists, to register to attend the conference and benefit from the information to be shared during the week of conference presentations and special events. Interested persons can register via the BNT’s webpage, http://www.bnt.bs/_m1885/Conference-Registration, call (242) 393-1317 or email bnhc@bnt.bs “The Bahamas Natural History Symposium brings together over 50 scientists who are presently conducting research on species and ecosystems in The Bahamas. We encourage everyone to learn more about the work that is being presented at the conference and to attend as many of the sessions as possible,” said Eric Carey, BNT Executive Director. Photo courtesy of BNT for Barefoot Marketing
Achievement and in 2011 the Dominican Republic’s Medal of Honor, the Royal Geographical Society’s Patron’s Medal, and Australia’s SIMS Green Leadership Award. Glenn Olson was Executive Director of Audubon California for 5 years and helped spearhead a CA Climate Atlas on Birds that has recently been expanded nationally to predict the impacts of climate change on the ranges of nearly 600 species of birds given various future Greenhouse Gas emission levels. Olson has also served as Audubon’s National Field Director from 1995 to 2003 starting Audubon’s network of State Offices in 27 states across the country. Olson began his Audubon career in 1976 teaching at the Audubon Camp of the West in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. Olson holds a master’s degree in public health from UCLA and a bachelor of science degree in zoology from UC Santa Barbara. He studied in the Galapagos Islands on a scholarship from the Charles Darwin Research Institute and inventoried Golden Eagle populations in Southern California as a research assistant at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. In 2002 Olson received Audubon’s Charles H. Callison Award in recognition of his conservation achievements. Website: http://www.bnt.bs/ Facebook: https://www.facebook. com/pages/Bahamas-National-Trust/25034035861?ref=hl
FYI- Dr. Sylvia Earle is Explorer in Residence of the National Geo-
graphic Society, Leader of the Sustainable Seas Expeditions, Council Chair for the Harte Research Institute, Founder of Mission Blue and the SEAlliance, and formerly the Chief Scientist of NOAA. A graduate of St. Petersburg College and Florida State University with MA and PhD from Duke University she has 22 honorary doctorates and more than 100 national and international awards including the 2009 TED Prize, the Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark, the Academy of 31