{"id":18407,"date":"2017-09-26T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18407"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:10:45","slug":"18407_john-smallwood-biology-elected-american-ornithological-society-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/2017\/09\/26\/18407_john-smallwood-biology-elected-american-ornithological-society-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"John Smallwood, Biology, Elected American Ornithological Society Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Smallwood began studying birds in 1979 and is internationally recognized for his expertise on the American Kestrel, a species of falcon. John was recruited to serve on the editorial board and then was elected to be Editor of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson Ornithological Society<\/a>&#8216;s journal, <em>The Wilson Bulletin<\/em>, for three consecutive years, operating the editorial office out of Science Hall from 2001-2004. He was elected Secretary, an executive officer position, of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson Ornithological Society<\/a>\u00a0for 16 one-year terms, the most terms for an individual in the society&#8217;s 130-year history. Within that society John has a reputation as the society&#8217;s &#8220;walking institutional memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the Wilson Ornithological Society, John has been an active member in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.raptorresearchfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raptor Research Foundation<\/a>, with six three-year terms on the Board of Directors, and as an associate editor of the Journal of Raptor Research\u00a0the top peer-reviewed journal for the study of predatory birds.<\/p>\n<p>With this background, and over 15 years as an Elective Member in the AOS, John was a clear choice in the eyes of the\u00a0American Ornithological Society, formerly the American Ornithologists&#8217; Union to be named a Fellow. This past August John was nominated and later elected to be a Fellow in the Society, where he joins over 400 others in this distinct group. Learn more about the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/americanornithology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Ornithological Society<\/a>\u00a0on their website and view a list of the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/americanornithology.org\/about\/fellows-elective-members\/\" target=\"_blank\">current fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Ornithological Society (AOS), the most prestigious professional society in the discipline, chooses Fellows based on their exceptional and sustained contributions to ornithology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":118407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209521,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18407\/revisions\/209521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}