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Ron serves as Executive Director of the Chipper Woods Bird
Observatory.
Ron has earned degrees in wildlife management and avian
population studies (Doctorate - Ball State University), marketing,
operations management, research and project management (MBA - Indiana
University), marine biology and ecology (MST - Florida Atlantic
University) and biology, physics and chemistry (BS – Widener
University).
Ron’s professional career includes experience in both
the private and the public sectors as a marine biologist and as an
environmental scientist, with expertise in water pollution control, air
pollution control, solid and hazardous waste management issues,
groundwater protection, infection control and medical/veterinary
laboratory science.
In addition to responsibilities with the CWBO, Ron
taught general and advanced biology courses at Marian College in
Indianapolis, Ball State University, and at the Indiana University
School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Courses taught include
ornithology, marine biology, field research methods, environmental
ethics, humans and the environment, evolution, zoology and other
advanced biology courses. He also served as part time faculty for the
U.S. Navy where he taught college courses to active duty navy personnel
while at sea on the super carrier USS Carl Vinson, CVN-70.
Ron served for 6 years as conservation chair for the
Indiana Audubon Society, the board of directors of Indiana Audubon
Society and the Amos Butler Chapter of the National Audubon Society, and
3 years on the board of directors for the Inland Bird Banding
Association.
His research endeavors have taken him to many regions of
North America, the Bahama Islands, the rainforest of Costa Rica, the
Páramo of the Andes Mountains, the rainforests of Ecuador, the deserts
and coastal regions of Namibia and South Africa, and various regions of
the tropical Pacific.
His scientific and general interest
publications have appeared both nationally
and internationally in publications such as the Indiana Audubon
Quarterly, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, the Bahama
Journal of Science, SAFRING (Journal of the South African Ringing
Society), Outdoor Indiana, The North American Bird Bander, Proceedings
of the U.S. Naval Institute, Radio ZS, the Journal of the South African
Radio Society, Popular Communications and others.
Currently, when not working on birds, Ron teaches
biology courses at Indiana Wesleyan University and Vincennes University.
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