Bird Strike Committee Proceedings

2021 virtual meeting

Monday,  August 16

FAA Briefing 2021 – Amy L Anderson and John R Weller

Bird Strike Committee USA Update and Awards – Nick Atwell

USDA Airport Wildlife Management And Research To Reduce Wildlife-aircraft Strike Risk – Michael J Begier and Bradley F Blackwell

Impact of Sample Condition on DNA Identification of Birdstrike Remains – Sarah AM Luttrell and Carla Dove

Investigating Nocturnal UAS Flights in an Applied Context to Prevent Gulls from Nesting on Rooftops – Morgan Pfeiffer, Craig K. Pullins, Scott Beckerman, Joshua Hoblet, Bradley Blackwell

Bird Strike Committee USA Meeting FAA Update – Birke Rhodes

Tuesday,  August 17

Estimating Wildlife Strike Costs at US Airports: A Machine Learning Approach – Levi Altringer, Jordan Navin, Michael J. Begier, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Aaron Anderson

Understanding Bird Strike Risk from Analysis of Avian Radar Generated Events – Sara Handrigan and Steve Osmek

Panel No. 2: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) – Lisa Harmon, Moderator

A Survey of Current sUAS Users – Meilun Zhou, Sathish Samiappan, Bradley F. Blackwell, and Morgan B. Pfeiffer

Utilizing UAS to Support Wildlife Hazard Management Efforts by Airport Operators – Flavio A. C. Mendoca

“High-tech Bird Bling”: Can Advanced Animal Tracking Tools Be Useful for Reducing Bird-Aircraft Collisions? – Dr. Brian Washburn

Dogs in the Toolbox: Using Border Collies for Non-Lethal Hazing of Hawaiian Geese – Chad Wickham

Classifying wildlife from aerial imagery using deep learning neural networks – Meilun Zhou, Jared Elmore, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Ray Iglay, Kristine Evans, Morgan Pfeiffer, Brad Blackwell

Thursday,  August 19
The Impact of COVID-19 on Wildlife Strikes: Evidence from U.S. Airports – Levi Altringer, Sophie McKeea, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Jason D. Kougher,
Jenny E. Washburn, Michael J. Begier

Height and speed equations for bird strikes in relation to distance from airport: potential uses to mitigate risk – Richard A. Dolbeer

ROBOTIC FALCONRY Bird Hazard Prevention – Luis Carlos Dominguez
Detecting radar echoes from birds using phased-array radar technologies – Jiangkun Gong

Advanced Air Mobility – Parimal Kopardekar

Aerial Wildlife Image Repository (AWIR) – Sathish Samiappan, Jared Elmore, Meilun Zhou, Ray Iglay, Kristine Evans, Brad Blackwell

Snarge and Feathers: Identifying birdstrikes – Jim Whatton
WILDLIFE DISEASE RISKS – Dr. Jay Tishendorf