Service and Outreach

SERVICE​​

• American Ornithological Society Early Career Systematics Group 2023 - current

• Western Field Ornithologist Youth Scholarship Committee 2016-2020

• Arizona Field Ornithologist Photo Editor 2014-2020

• Member of the Arizona Bird Records Committee 2014-2017, 2019-2022

• Author of AZFO Seasonal reports 2012-2016

• December 2003 – 2011; North American Birds journal; sub-regional editor for Northern California.

• June-September 2003, Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology; transferred rare bird documentation from paper to digital format for the California Bird Records Committee.

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Reviews provided (7)

Arizona Birds, Ecography, Emu, Western Birds, Wilson Journal of Ornithology

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Outreach​

• October 2025; Vander Pluym, D. (Article). Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences Newsletter, Vol 43: 2. A trip to Costa Rica in search of Slate-throated Redstarts.

• October 2025; Vander Pluym, D. (Article). Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences Newsletter, Vol 43: 2. Big Day Report

• September 2025, October 2021; Acadiana Master Naturalists Bird Workshop, Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• May 2025; Vander Pluym, D. (Article). Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences Newsletter, Vol 43: 1.  Expedition to the Peruvian Pelagic Zone.

• April 2022, 2023, 2025; Louisiana State University Audubon Days, behind the scenes tour of Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• March 2025; Vander Pluym, D. (Talk). Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science seminar series. Travelogue: Peruvian Pelagic.

• January 2025; Special Saturday, teaching about Ornithology for ages 5-10 at Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• August 2024; Baton Rouge Audubon Society, behind the scenes tour of Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• March 2024; Louisiana State University Conservation Biology Class; behind the scenes tour of Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• February 2024; Landscape Architecture class, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, behind the scenes tour of Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• February 2024; Kids Day at Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences. 

• March 2023; Girls Day at Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Sciences.

• Spring 2022; Virtual ornithological tour leader for Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Sciences.  for Crestworth and Melrose Elementary Schools (ages 6-8).

• Date; Louisiana Ornithological Society Field Trip

• October 2011-2019; Field Trip leader and presenter Arizona Field Ornithologist Conference.

• October 2008, 2014, 2018; Field trip leader for Western Field Ornithologist conference.

• March 2004 – 2010; part time trip leader for Shearwater Journeys, aid in finding and identifying seabirds and marine mammals in Northern California.

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Volunteer ​​​​

• July-September 2007; surveying and monitoring of Federally Endangered California Least Terns and Snowy Plovers at Point Mugu Naval Air Station.

• May 2003 - May 2007; point count surveys for Santa Cruz County forest birds under biological consultant David Suddjian.

• January 2004 - February 2007, UC Santa Cruz; banded, bleed, and re-sighted Golden-Crowned Sparrows under the direction of biology professor Bruce Lyon.

• March 2006, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas; Ivory-billed Woodpecker transect surveys for Cornell Lab of Ornithology.