Tag Archives: Miyoko Chu

What we do: 8 TED-style talks about birds and saving the world

At an event in Washington, DC, this weekend, Cornell Lab directors presented a set of short, crisp, exciting talks about the work that we do. They’re a great introduction to the kinds of exciting research, conservation, and outreach that consume our lives. Lab director John Fitzpatrick kicked things off with his argument that birds really [...]

State of the Birds: Can We Learn from Austin’s Bats?

Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the 2010 State of the Birds Report in Austin, Texas. Our communications director, Miyoko Chu, was there too (that’s Miyoko at far right, above). The threats that climate change poses to birds are unsettling, but Miyoko was heartened by an unlikely sight: thousands of bats flying up [...]