Pop-Up Speaker: Dave Hanna from Pacific Rim Conservation in Hawaii

Calling all wildlife enthusiasts! Join us for an exciting pop-up speaker presentation as we welcome visiting researcher and seabird conservation technician Dave Hanna from Pacific Rim Conservation in Hawaii. 

This program will highlight some of the numerous projects PRC manages as it works to maintain and restore native bird diversity, populations, and habitats in Hawaii and across the Pacific region.

Dave’s Bio:

Dave grew up in Dover, Ohio. He graduated from Kent State University in 2007 with a Conservation degree.  Dave began his career working with Hawaiian Geese, and Hawaiian Petrels at Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui, and has worked for the USDA controlling wildlife on airfields on Maui, US Geological Survey with shorebirds in Nebraska, colonial seabirds and American Oystercatchers at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and Piping Plovers at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Dave currently is working on the island of Kauai for Pacific Rim Conservation.  He and his coworker Dylan are tasked with the biomonitoring for all seabirds within Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, and using sound attraction to bring endangered seabirds (Hawaiian Petrels, and Newell’s Shearwaters) into the refuge, and within a site in Koke’e State Park.

Dave also is a birder by hobby.  He became an eBirder in 2021, and that has consumed his life. He enjoys traveling to see birds, and photograph them.