Where do songbirds stop to rest and refuel during their epic migration journey? How does weather radar help with on-the-ground conservation efforts to protect migratory songbirds? Dr. Freda Guo’s research focuses on these questions. She will introduce her work harnessing the power of weather radar to track the continental-scale movement of these birds, and identify critical stopover hotspots and key habitats they depend on during migration. She will also talk about how songbirds cope with the challenges when stopover sites are missing, and discuss the conservation implications.

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Dr. Fengyi Guo (Freda) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a Rose Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She is a conservation biologist committed to solutions-oriented research. Combining data-intensive radar remote sensing and on-the-ground field surveys, her research focuses on identifying stopover hotspots and key habitats for migratory landbirds during the en-route period, thus contributing to the full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and her M.Phil. and B.Sc. from The University of Hong Kong.