Alison Styring

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Alison Styring (* 1972 as Alison Robinson) is an American ornithologist . She teaches at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington . Styrings research focus is on the bird life of Southeast Asia .

Life

Styring was born Alison Robinson in 1972. She studied biology at Indiana University Bloomington . During a study trip to Australia in 1993, Styring decided to pursue a career as an ornithologist and subsequently enrolled at Louisiana State University . In 2002 she wrote her dissertation there on the effects of Malay forestry on woodpecker species there . She then worked for Disney World in Disney's Animal Kingdom , where she ran a local wildlife observation program. Since August 2005 Styring teaches at Evergreen State College in the US state of Washington .

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Alison Styring is primarily concerned with the avifauna of Southeast Asia, with woodpeckers and ground hornbills occupying a special place in her research. Since 2011 she has been planning a large-scale mapping of the Tawau Hills Park on Borneo , whereby bird and other animal sounds of the species there are to be collected. Her approach to financing the project attracted media attention. Styring discontinued its project on the crowdsourcing platform kickstarter.com and asked interested Internet users to donate the US $ 20,000 . Styring explained this procedure by saying that conventional institutions for the promotion of science had shown no interest in a project whose direct financial benefit was rather low. However, the Kickstarter funding failed because the planned donation amount did not materialize.

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literature

  • Thomas Lin: Turn to Crowds on the Web to Finance Their Projects. In: New York Times , July 12, 2011. p. D3. ( Online as html )
  • Dietrich von Richthofen: Collection for the researchers. Expeditions with change? Young scientists collect donations for their projects. Die Zeit (36), September 1, 2011. ( Online as Html )
  • University of Wollongong : US Biologist Found Career Direction During Study Aboard. In: Campus News 8 (4), December 2005. P. 10. ( Online as PDF )

Web links

  • Alison Styring: Alison Styring. Evergreen State University, blogs.evergreen.edu, 2011. (Including list of publications)
  • Louisiana State University: Alumni. www.biology.lsu.edu, 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b from Richthofen 2011 .
  2. ^ Louisiana State University 2006 . Retrieved September 13, 2011.
  3. ^ University of Wollongong 2005 , p. 10.
  4. ^ Styring 2011 . Retrieved September 13, 2011.
  5. ↑ Lin 2011 , p. D3.
  6. ^ Kickstarter.com : Mapping a Bornean Soundscape , last accessed April 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Styring, Alison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Alison (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972