
Spring 2013
For decades, bird banders at the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences have accepted bites as part of the job. As they remove birds from nets, attach silver identification bands to their legs, measure and weigh them, birds will sometimes take the opportunity to clamp down on the banders’ fingers.
Spring 2013
Andy Whitman is Director of Manomet's Natural Capital Initiative. He has studied and helped develop sustainable landscapes — forestry, agriculture and recreational — since 1993. He has served on sustainability panels for state government and businesses and has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Andy holds an M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine.
Spring 2013
Mary Niles served on Manomet's Board of Trustees from 1981 to 1987 and remained a Life Trustee until 2009. She passed the mantle on to her daughter, Molly Cornell, in 1997. To this day Molly is an active Trustee and banding volunteer. Mary and Molly have made Manomet part of their lives. Both they and Manomet have been enriched by the experience.