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Joel G. Jorgensen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008 PHOTOS               Rare Bird Photos            Buff-breasted Sandpiper project

 

CURRENT POSITION 

 

Nongame Bird Program Manager

Wildlife Division

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

2200 N. 33rd St.

Lincoln, NE 68503

402-471-5440

joel.jorgensen@ngpc.ne.gov

 

 

EDUCATION

 

  • M.Sc. Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2007

Thesis title:  Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) abundance, habitat use, and distribution during migratory stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.                                

  • Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Science, University Nebraska at Omaha, 2006
  • B.Sc. Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1997

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Sharpe, R.S., W.R. Silcock and J.G. Jorgensen.  2001.  Birds of Nebraska:  Their Distribution and Temporal Occurrence.   University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.  520 Pages.

Peer-reviewed publications

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2008.  Buff-breasted Sandpiper Density and Numbers During Migratory Stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.    The Condor 110: 63-69.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2007..  Landscape and habitat variables affecting Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryingites subruficollis) distribution during migratory stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska, USA.  International Wader Study Group Bulletin 112: 45-51.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger, M. Ealy, and B. Ortego.  2006.  Buff-breasted Sandpiper abundance, distribution, and habitat use in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska and Texas [Abstract].  Wader Study Group Bulletin 109: 21 

Jorgensen, J.G., and S.J. Dinsmore.  2005.  An assessment of the status of White-faced Ibis in the Great Plains.  North American Birds 59: 376-381. 

Jorgensen, J.G.  2004.  An Overview of Shorebird Migration in the Eastern Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union Occasional Paper No. 8.  68 pages.

Dinsmore, S.J., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2001.  Arctic Terns nesting in Montana:  First modern Interior breeding record in the lower 48 United States.  North American Birds 55: 127-131.

 

Short papers, notes, and reports

Brown, M.B., J.G. Jorgensen, and S.E. Rehme.  Submitted.  Endangered species responses to natural habitat declines:  Nebraska’s Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) and Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) nesting in a novel habitat.  Nebraska Bird Review.

Jorgensen, J.G. and S.E. Rehme.  Submitted.  The 2007 Midwinter Bald Eagle survey.  Nebraska Bird Review. 

Jorgensen, J.G.  2007 Update to An Overview of Shorebird Migration in the Eastern Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Report published by author. 

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2007.  Henslow’s Sparrow status in Nebraska.  Nebraska Bird Review 75: 13-16.

Jorgensen, J.G.  Submitted.  2006 International Piping Plover Census in Nebraska (off-Missouri River sites).  2006 International Piping Plover Census Summary Report.

Silcock, W.R., J.J. Dinan, B. Huser, and J.G. Jorgensen.  2005.  Status of the Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulean) in Nebraska.  Nebraska Bird Review 73: 124-130.

Jorgensen, J.G., and P. Dunbar.  2005.  Multiple Black-necked Stilt nesting records in the Rainwater Basin.  Nebraska Bird Review 73: 115-118.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2004.  A preliminary assessment of Eastern Rainwater Basin birdlife.    Unfinished manuscript available on the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union website (http://rip.physics.unk.edu/NOU/eRWBbirdlistJGJPDF.pdf)

Jorgensen, J.G.  2003.  Another Sandhill Crane breeding record in the Eastern Rainwater Basin.  Nebraska Bird Review 71:167-168.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2003.  2001 (13th) Report of the NOU Records Committee.  Nebraska Bird Review 71: 97-102

Jorgensen, J.G.  2002.  The changing status of the Sandhill Crane in the Eastern Rainwater Basin.  Nebraska Bird Review 70: 122-127.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2002.  2002 (sic 2000) (12th) Report of the NOU Records Committee.  Nebraska Bird Review 70: 84-90.

Dinsmore, S.J., and J.G. Jorgensen.  2000.  Yellow-billed Loon at Lake McConaughy.  Nebraska Bird Review 65: 22-23.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2001.  1999 (eleventh) report of the NOU Records Committee.  Nebraska Bird Review 69: 85-91.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1998.  Mystery duck (Anas spp.) at Sinninger WPA, York County.   Nebraska Bird Review 66: 4-5.

Jorgensen, J.G., and W.R. Silcock.  1998.  Nebraska’s first Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris furruginea).  Nebraska Bird Review 66: 3.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1997.  Two apparent hybrid diving ducks at Cunningham Lake, Douglas County.   Nebraska Bird Review 65: 102-103.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1997.  Shorebird migration in the eastern Rainwater Basin-spring 1997.  Nebraska Bird Review 65: 100-102.

Dinsmore, S.J, and J.G. Jorgensen.  1997.  Red-necked Grebe at Sutherland Reservoir.  Nebraska Bird Review 65: 99.

Dinsmore, S.J. and J.G. Jorgensen.  1997.  Sabine’s Gulls in Western Nebraska.  Nebraska Bird Review 65:42-43.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1996.  A review of the status of Limnodromus griseus, the Short-billed Dowitcher, in Nebraska.  Nebraska Bird Review 64: 74-78.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1994.  Snowy Plover.  Nebraska Bird Review 62: 99.

Jorgensen, J.G.  1994.  Ruff with Godwits.  Nebraska Bird Review 62: 98-99.

Popular articles

Jorgensen, J.G.  2007.  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper in the Rainwater Basin.  NEBRASKAland Magazine, April, pg 13.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2007.  Migration, stopover, survival, conservation:  the case of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper and the Rainwater Basin.  Something Wild 2007 (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission annual report of the nongame species conservation fund), pgs 2-3.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2005.  The heart of the hourglass:  birding Nebraska's Rainwater Basin.   Winging It (Newsletter of the American Birding Association) Vol. 17, no. 4, July/August 2005, pgs 1, 4-5.

 

 

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

 

Jorgensen, J.G.  2008.  The Rainwater Basin and shorebirds:  facts about the WHSRN nomination.  Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Informational Seminar.  Grand Island, Nebraska

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2008.  Transcontinental migrants of high concern and underappreciated local breeders:  Implications of shorebird use of agricultural fields in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Nebraska Chapter of the Wildlife Society and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Prairie Bird Symposium.  Kearney, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2007.  The importance of the Rainwater Basin in the annual cycle of the  Buff-breasted Sandpiper (and other shorebirds).  Invited presentation, Lueshen Birders.  Norfolk, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2007.  The importance of the Rainwater Basin in the annual cycle of the  Buff-breasted Sandpiper (and other shorebirds).  Invited presentation, Wachiska Audubon Society.  Lincoln, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., and W.R. Silcock.  2007.  The Henslow’s Sparrow in Nebraska.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Henslow’s Sparrow Workshop.  Minneapolis, MN.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2006.  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper and the Rainwater Basin.  Invited presentation, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Research Symposium.  Grand Island, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2006.  Buff-breasted Sandpiper migration and stopover in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Invited presentation, Rivers and Wildlife Celebration presented by Audubon Nebraska and the Nebraska Partnership for All-bird Conservation.  Kearney, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, L.L. Wolfenbarger, M. Ealy, and B. Ortego.  2006.   Buff-breasted Sandpiper abundance, distribution, and habitat use during migration in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska (and Texas).  Buff-breasted Sandpiper Symposium, Shorebird Science in the Western Hemisphere.  Boulder, Colorado.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2005.  Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) stopover in the Rainwater Basin.  32nd Natural Areas Conference (Changing Natural Landscapes:  Ecological and Human Dimensions).  Lincoln, Nebraska. (Best Student Presentation Award Winner).

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2005.  Migration, stopover, survival, conservation:  the case of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper and the Rainwater Basin.  Nebraska Ornithologists' Union Fall Meeting.  Alma, Nebraska.

Jorgensen, J.G., J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2005.  A spatial model for Buff-breasted Sandpipers during migration in an agricultural landscape.  American Ornithologists' Union 123rd Annual Meeting.  Santa Barbara, California.

Jorgensen, J.G.  2005.  Using GIS to model Buff-breasted Sandpiper habitat suitability in the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska.  Poster presented at the Nebraska GIS/LIS Association Annual Symposium.  Lincoln, Nebraska.  (Best Student Poster Award Winner).

Jorgensen, J.G, J.P. McCarty, and L.L. Wolfenbarger.  2005.  The Buff-breasted Sandpiper and the Rainwater Basin.  Invited speaker to the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Informational Seminar.  Hastings, Nebraska.

Lanctot, R., J. Almeida, S. Brown, R. Clay, C. Duncan, J. Jorgensen, and B. Sandercock. 2005. Coordinated, multi-national efforts to conserve Buff-breasted Sandpipers on their breeding, migration and nonbreeding grounds. U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan Summit. Galveston, Texas.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Ornithologists’ Union

Cooper Ornithological Society

International Wader Study Group

Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union

The Wildlife Society – Nebraska Chapter

Waterbird Society

Wilson Ornithological Society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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