VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SARAH MABEY

(434) 381-6190
smabey@sbc.edu

Education:
Ph.D.  2002  University of Southern Mississippi
M.S.    1992  University of Maryland
B.A.    1986  Bryn Mawr College

2002-2006  Postdoctoral Research Associate
2002-2004 David H. Smith Conservation Science Postdoctoral Fellow
North Carolina State University

Research
I am applying remote sensing tools (e.g., radar) to conservation planning for migratory landbirds.  I am currently a principal investigator on MIGRATE (Migration Interest Group: Research Applied Toward Education). This large, NSF-funded project is applying new technologies to studying long-distance landbird migrations.   My co-principal investigators are J. Kelly (University of Oklahoma), F. Moore (University of Southern Mississippi), J. Smith (NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center), T. Smith (UCLA), and M. Wikelski (Princeton University).

My postdoctoral research was sponsored by Dr. Ted Simons, an avian conservation biologist at NCSU, and by Dr. Sid Gauthreaux, Director of the Clemson University Radar Ornithology Lab.

I continue to collaborate with my graduate advisor, Dr. Frank Moore, and the Migratory Bird Research Group at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Publications

Mehlman, D., S. Mabey, D. Ewert, B. Able, D. Cimprich, C. Duncan, M. Ford, P. Patterson, R. Sutter, and M. Woodrey. 2005. A new framework for classifying and protecting migratory landbird stopover sites. The Auk 122(4):1281-1290.

Mabey, S. E. IN PRESS. The Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) in Virginia. Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas. (R. Clapp and E. Wilson, eds) The Virginia Society of Ornithology, Richmond, VA.

Mabey, S. E. and M.V. McDonald. IN PRESS. The Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus) in Virginia. Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas. (R. Clapp and E. Wilson, eds) The Virginia Society of Ornithology, Richmond, VA.

Moore, F. R., S. E. Mabey, and M. S. Woodrey. 2003. Priority access to food in migratory birds: age, sex and motivational asymmetries; pp. 281-292. in: Avian Migration, P. Berthold, E. Gwinner & E. Sonnenschein, eds. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York.

Mabey, S. E. and B. D. Watts. 2000. Conservation of Landbird Migrants: Addressing Local Policy; pp. 99-108 in Studies in Avian Biology, F.R. Moore, ed. Allen Press, Lawrence, KA.

McCann, J., S. E. Mabey, L. J. Niles, C. Bartlett, and P. Kerlinger. 1993. A regional study of coastal migratory stopover habitat for neotropical songbirds: land management implications. Trans. N. Am. Wild. and Nat. Resources, Conf. 58:398-407.

Mabey, S. E. and E. S. Morton. 1992. Behavioral and ecological factors influencing demography and survival of wintering Kentucky Warblers in Panama; pp. 329 - 335 in Ecology and Conservation of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds, J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Agency Publications

C. Duncan, B. Able, D. Ewert, M. Ford, S. Mabey, D. Mehlman, P. Patterson, R. Sutter, and M. Woodrey. 2002. Protecting Stopover Sites for Forest-Dwelling Migratory Landbirds: A Nature Conservancy Issue Paper from the Migratory Bird Program, the Great Lakes Program & the Southeast Division. Arlington, VA.

Mabey, S. E. and B. D. Watts. 1998. Migratory Birds on the Lower Delmarva: A Habitat Management Guide for Landowners. A Joint Publication of VA Coastal Resources Management Program, VA Dept. of Environmental Quality and Northampton County, Richmond, VA.

Mabey, S. E. 1997. Coastal Virginia Ecotour Guide Certification Training Program Curriculum. A report to NOAA, the VA Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, and the VA Dept. of Environmental Quality. Distributed by Division of Natural Heritage (VADCR) and VA Coastal Resources Management Program (VADEQ), Richmond, VA.

Watts, B. D. and S. E. Mabey. 1994. Migratory landbirds of the lower Delmarva: Habitat selection and geographic distribution. Final Report. Report #NA37OZ0360-01 of the VA Dept. of Environmental Quality, Richmond, VA.

Mabey, S. E., J. McCann, L. J. Niles, C. Bartlett, and P. Kerlinger. 1993. The neotropical migratory songbird coastal corridor study: Final Report. A report to NOAA and the VA Dept. of Environmental Quality. VADNH 92-8, Division of Natural Heritage, Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, Richmond, VA.

McShea, B., L. Hartman, J. Blew, and S. Mabey. 1989. Tulip Tree-Hickory Forest; Breeding Bird Census. J. of Field Ornithology 60(1).

Mabey, S., B. McShea, J. Blew, and L. Hartman. 1989. Young Black Locust Shrubland; Breeding Bird Census. J. of Field Ornithology 60(1).

Selected Recent Abstracts

Identifying stopover sites for migrating passerine birds in the lower Chesapeake Bay region (with B. Watts, B. Paxton, and F. Smith, College of William and Mary; B. Truitt, The Nature Conservancy; and D. Dawson, U.S. Geological Survey). (Poster) Wilson Ornithological Society/Association for Field Ornithologists Annual Meeting, Beltsville, MD. April 2005.

La migrazione differenziale di Balia nera (Ficedula hypoleuca) e Pigliamosche (Muscicapa striata): confronto tra due siti di sosta (with R. Mantovani and F. Spina, Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, Bologne, Italy). (Poster) Italian Ornithological Congress, Naples, Italy. September 2003.

Intersexual differences in the migratory restlessness of a flocking intercontinental migrant, the Eastern Kingbird. North American Ornithological Congress, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. September 2002.