SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATIONS


The Conference will be hosting speakers from around the world. Presentations will include topics such as training and behavior, shows and demonstrations, conservation and education, animal management, enrichment, nutrition, and veterinary medicine. We are also offering the option of Poster Presentations again this year.

Provisional Paper List

• Keynote Speaker - Jerome A. Jackson, Professor of Biology, Florida Gulf Coast University
• Maureen O'Keefe, Karen Povey, & Sara Mattison - From Inspiration to Action: Reaching New Heights with New Ideas
• Helen Dishaw - Failure and Success! Experience of a Fledgling Bird Trainer
• Jeffrey Meshach - Coping, Trimming and Restraining
• Barbara Heidenreich - Latent Performance of Behavior - How to Train Quick Response to a Cue
• Catherine Vine - Reducing Aggression through Positive Reinforcement
• Karen Swann & Laura Dray - SeaWorld Orlando Guest Interaction Program: You want us to do what!?
• Matt Edmonds - Free Flight Training for Traveling Shows
• Gary Denzler - Evolution of a Behavior: Alligators and Birds?
• Sid Price - Strong Foundations and Adjustments - Keys to Training Success
• Melissa Horton - It's All About Choices
• Walter Crawford - Providing a Medical Support Team and Facility for a Bird Show
• Steve Martin - The Art and Science of Bird Training
• Eddie Annal & Kevin Kellner - Getting the Most out of your Outreach Program
• Sharon Dale & Rhonda Wuensch - Youth Volunteers… why not?
• Jessica Klassen - Contributing Factors on Burrow Activity in Fratercula arctica (Atlantic Puffin) in the Vestmannaeyjar Islands, Iceland
• Joanna Eckles - In the Field and In the Bedroom- Parrot Conservation Today

CALL FOR PAPERS

This year's conference theme is "Soaring to New Heights". Share your knowledge, expertise, and experience with IAATE members. This year we are soliciting papers on these topics:

• Training and Behavior
• Shows and Education
• Conservation and Research
• Animal Management and Veterinary Medicine

30 minutes will be allotted for each paper presentation/10 minute question/answer). Posters will be on display throughout the conference with time allotted to meet with the author.

If you would like to present a paper or poster, please send an abstract by October 10, 2005.  Guidelines may be downloaded from here.

Electronic submissions are preferred.

Cassie Malina
414 Broadway Ave.
  Orlando, FL 32803 USA

Email: c.malina@naturalencounters.com

Electronic submissions are preferred. Please submit documents in Microsoft Word. Abstract and paper guidelines can be found at www.iaate.org or by contacting Cassie Malina.