Stephen Brown

STEPHEN BROWN is the director of the Shorebird Conservation Research Program at Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, and has studied shorebirds and their wetland habitats for twenty years. He received his doctorate from Cornell University, where he studied restoration of wetland bird habitats. Stephen is the lead author of The United States Shorebird Conservation Plan as well as more than twenty peer-reviewed articles on shorebirds and wetland management. He conducts field studies on the distribution and abundance of shorebirds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and collaborates on other shorebird research and conservation projects throughout the country.