Vijay Patil will talk about recent research on arctic nesting geese in Alaska. Vijay is a wildlife biologist and data analyst with the USGS Alaska Science Center who has been studying the migration, breeding biology and population dynamics of Black Brant and Snow Geese for 10 years. His work has focused on understanding how these bird species are responding to Alaska’s changing climate, and how they use regions of Alaska that are often in the news, such as Izembek Lagoon, the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska, and the Arctic Coastal Plain.