Laurie Goodrich

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Laurie Goodrich is the Senior Monitoring Biologist at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in Kempton, Pennsylvania and recently also served as the Interim Director of Education for Hawk Mountain. She has a M.S. is Ecology from Rutgers University, NJ, and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the Pennsylvania State University. Goodrich serves on the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America and Raptor Research Foundation, and serves on the Pennsylvania Ornithological Technical Committee and is an Elective Member of American Ornithological Union.

In addition, she holds membership in several national and regional societies. Goodrich coordinates the migration monitoring program at Hawk Mountain, conducts research on raptor migration ecology, and acts as an advisor to the Veracruz River of Raptors project in Mexico and as Hawk Mountain’s liaison to North American watch-sites. Her publications include papers on the forest songbirds, raptor migration, raptor monitoring, and population trends.