Rotary Club of West Marin Speaker Series

In person at the Toby’s Feed Barn Gallery in Point Reyes Station. Everyone is welcome!
For a Zoom invitation, please email info@rotaryclubwestmarin.com. 

Speaker Series: Diana Humple, Senior Avian Ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science and Program Leader at Palomarin Field Station in Bolinas, speaks about the Palomarin landbird monitoring projects and their importance to understanding the effects of Climate Change on avian populations.

Humple coordinates the science, training, and outreach activities conducted by Point Blue’s team at Palomarin, our organization’s longest-running study site, established in 1966. She also manages various landbird monitoring projects throughout the Bay Area; serves as the banding and permit coordinator; and serves as coordinator of Point Blue’s oil spill response and preparedness efforts for the state of California and the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. 

She received an undergraduate degree in environmental science (with a focus on ecology) and psychology from the University of Virginia in 1995. Subsequently, she came to Point Blue as an intern in 1996, where she studied birds in the shrubsteppe of Oregon and participated in banding at Palomarin. In 2009, she completed a Master’s degree in Biology at Sonoma State University, where she studied the genetics and demographics of oil spills in Western and Clark’s Grebes. 

One of the world’s premier facilities for training field biologists in avian ecology, Point Blue Conservation Science’s Palomarin Field Station, located at the south end of Point Reyes National Seashore near the town of Bolinas, has welcomed more than 700 interns from 23 countries since 1966. Palomarin data—including information on songbirds, habitat, weather, and the impact of environmental change—have been the basis for 100+ peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Today, this includes the longest-running mist-netting and landbird-banding monitoring effort West of the Mississippi and the third in the continent, as well as a songbird nest-monitoring and territory-mapping program that spans four decades.

 Check out our website to learn more about the field station and the Stewards of Palomarin.