Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society

Meetings  & Program Schedule

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  Meeting Date:
Meetings start at 7:00 P.M. - Room 102, Yates Hall, (across from the North end of PSU football stadium) at 1702 S. Joplin St., Pittsburg, KS.  Click here for a PSU campus map.  Click here for a Yahoo map.
Thursday
September 30, 2010
"Antarctica and the Chilean Fjords" - A slide presentation by Rod  & Ellen  Sallee on their Antarctica expedition cruise and Chilean Fjords aboard the ms Nordnorge.  Including naturalist-guided shore excursions by PolarCirkel boats to 8 landing sites observing penguins, seabirds, whales, seals; encounters with pods of killer whales, humpback whales, elephant seals, Antarctic Terns, Kelp gulls, Blue-eyed shags, Black-browed albatross and many other birds.  Also information about the trip's visit to Buenos Aires and Ushuaia Argentina (the World’s End) and the post cruise trip in Chile beginning in Punta Arenas where they saw Magellanic Penguins and visited Torres Del Paine National Park and Patagonia.
     Ellen retired from Shepherdstown University, on the banks of the Potomac River, in Shepherdstown, WV where she was a Professor of Education and served as the Chair of the Department of Education. 
     Rod retired from the U.S. Forest Service after nearly 40 years federal service, with his last assignment of 13 years on the Forest Management staff in the Forest Service’s Washington D.C. National Headquarters.
Thursday
October 28, 2010
"Black-footed Ferrets in Kansas", by Pat Silovsky, who received her Master's Degree from Pittsburg State in 1986, and soon after became Director of the Milford Nature Center, Milford, KS, a position she still holds.  She has been a leader in Kansas conservation and education, and co-recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Professional Interpreter Award, Region Six, from the National Association for Interpretation.
No Meeting
November 2010
Due to conflict with Thanksgiving and Christmas, the November and December meetings have been combined, and held on December 2, 2010.
Thursday
December 2, 2010  
To be announced.
Thursday
January 27, 2011
To be announced.
Thursday
February 24, 2011
To be announced.
Thursday
March 31, 2011
To be announced.
Thursday
April 28,
2011
To be announced.
Thursday
May 26,
2011
6-9 P.M.
Sperry-Galligar Audubon Picnic, this year held on a Thursday at Homer Cole Pittsburg Community Center, 3003 North Joplin in Pittsburg, KS.
Summer Hiatus SGAS will not hold regular meetings in the months of June, July & August.


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