The AOS Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee seeks to add up to six new members starting in January 2025. The D&I Committee is engaged in efforts to continually improve diversity and inclusion within AOS and ornithology.
The Flocks Project (funding through a DESIGN grant from the National Science Foundation’s BIOLEAPS program) has been working closely with the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS), and the Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO)…
The AOS is moving forward with a pilot project to determine new English common names for an initial set of six species of North American birds.
Amani Edwards brings an incredible breadth of experience to the D&I Coordinator role. She has served in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) space for more than ten years.
“There is power in a name, and some English bird names have associations with the past that continue to be exclusionary and harmful today,” says president. “The time has come for us to transform this process and redirect the focus to the birds, where it belongs,” says CEO. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: media@americanornithology.org CHICAGO (November …
CHICAGO — May 16, 2023 — The landscape of science is changing: People from increasingly varied backgrounds, identities, cultures, and genders are pursuing careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. Support for this more diverse population of scientists needs to extend beyond “one size fits all” to better meet the needs of today’s …
One of the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS’s) key functions is to create a strong community that welcomes and supports individuals across a broad range of career paths, interests, backgrounds, and needs. Last year we solicited insights from our members to better understand our Society’s current culture and how to improve it. As we work towards …
By Judith Scarl, Executive Director and CEO The last decade has been a wild and wonderful journey for the American Ornithological Society (AOS), as we’ve changed, grown, and adapted in significant and positive ways. In 2015, we merged two major ornithological societies, the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society. The year before, in …
The American Ornithological Society is committed to creating an organizational culture that is inclusive, broadly welcoming and supportive, and that meets our members’ needs.
| Español | As a science, ornithology—and ornithologists—revel in diversity and understand its significance for innovation, evolution, and resilience. Ornithology has a checkered past and thus ornithologists today don’t fully represent the human diversity of our world. The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is working hard to change that. As part of our continued commitment to making ornithology …
