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.
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, Somerset, PA
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources
- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA
- Massachusetts Audubon
- The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, MD
- Black Swamp Bird Observatory, Oak Harbor, OH
- New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, Cape May, NJ
- Biodiversity Research Institute, Portland, ME
- Whitefish Point Bird Observatory, Paradise MI
- Laval University, Quebec City, QC
Major donors
- RJM Foundation
- Wendy McLean
- Kathy Lambrow
- Michael Reilly
- Several anonymous donors
Sponsors
- Cellular Tracking Technologies, Rio Grande, NJ (in-kind donations)
- 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
- Eugene Potapov, Bryn Athyn College, PA
- Dan Brauning and Doug Gross, Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Sherrill Davison, DVM, University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center
- Glenn Proudfoot, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Tom Johnson, Hummelstown, PA
- John Booth, Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art
- Don Crockett, Great Blue Media Works, New Britain, CT (deceased)
- Mark Shieldcastle, Black Swamp Bird Observatory, OH
- Chris DeSorbo, Lauren Gilpatrick, Chris Persico, Biodiversity Research Institute, Portland, ME
- Ildiko Szabo, University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum, B.C.
