Project SNOWstorm is a collaboration between dozens of scientists and organizations. Formed in the wake of the historic snowy owl irruption of 2013-14, we have in the years since continued to expand our study of the ecology of wintering snowy owls, and are now one of the largest ongoing research efforts focusing on snowy owls in the world.
SNOWstorm was the brainchild of David F. Brinker of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Scott Weidensaul, research director for the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg, PA, and Steve Huy of Frederick, Maryland. Its institutional home is the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in central Pennsylvania, which provides the 501 (c)(3) nonprofit umbrella under which SNOWstorm operates.
Partners include:
- Project Owlnet
- Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art, Millersburg, PA
- Cellular Tracking Technologies, Rio Grande, NJ
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA
- Massachusetts Audubon
- The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, MD
- Friends of Whitefish Point, Paradise MI
- Laval University, Quebec City, QC
- Destination: Wildlife
Major donors
- RJM Foundation
- Wendy McLean
- Kathy Lambrow
- Michael Reilly
- Several anonymous donors
Current and Past Sponsors and Partners
- New Jersey Audubon
- The Nature Conservancy, New Jersey
- Delmarva Ornithological Society
- Wisconsin Society for Ornithology
- Wisconsin Public Service Foundation
- Madison (WI) Audubon Society
- Fond du Lac County (WI) Audubon Society
- Fond du Lac Area (WI) Foundation
- Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology
- Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
- Kirtland Bird Club and Toledo Naturalists’ Association
- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
- Alma College, Alma, MI
- Michigan Bird Conservation (Audubon Society of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Valley Bird Observatory/Kalamazoo Nature Center, Laughing Whitefish Audubon Society, Michigan Audubon Society)
- Baltimore Bird Club, MD
- Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland, OH
- David Allen Sibley (limited edition prints)
- Braddock Bay Raptor Research, Rochester, NY
- American Birding Association
- Bird Watcher’s Digest
- Hummer/Bird Study Group
- Paul Riss, PRBY Apparel, Ontario, Canada
- Tom Johnson, Hummelstown, PA
Additional contributors include:
- David Okines, Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory, ON
- Sherrill Davison, DVM, University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center
- Lara Maupin, Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art
- Don Crockett, Great Blue Media Works, New Britain, CT (deceased)
- Ildiko Szabo, University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum, B.C.
