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New Honorary Members of the Cooper Ornithological Society

The Cooper Ornithological Society (COS) is pleased to bestow Honorary Membership to Dr. Katie M. Dugger, for her outstanding service to the Society and to ornithology. Katie is originally from Milpitas, California, and received her undergraduate degree at University California Davis, and her MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri. After graduating she joined the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University as Assistant Professor in 2001. In 2011 she joined the Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (USGS) as Assistant Coop Unit Leader for Wildlife. Katie’s research interests center on estimating and modeling vital rates in relation to environmental variation. Her work addresses the conservation and management of species and ecosystems. The animal species and ecological systems with which she and her students and colleagues have worked are diverse, from Adélie Penguins in Antarctica, Spotted Owls, slender salamanders and blacktailed deer in the Pacific Northwest, and Rusty Blackbirds in Alaska, to Least Terns on the Mississippi River. Katie is best-known for her long-term work on Adélie Penguins and is featured in the video Thin Ice. She is a co-author on 28 peer-reviewed papers, 4 technical reports, and 1 book chapter. Katie began her service to the Cooper Ornithologial Society on the Mewaldt-King Award Committee (2000– 2002). She served on the Board of Directors (2006–2009) and was the COS representative to the Local Committee for the 2008 Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists/Société des Ornithologistes du Canada that took place in Portland, Oregon. She served as Treasurer of the Cooper Society (2008–2012), and her meticulous attention to detail and analytical skills helped to guide COS management during this time. Thus, the Cooper Ornithological Society is proud to award Honorary Membership to Dr. Katie S. Dugger for her outstanding contributions to our Society and to ornithology.