AUBURN — Scientist Gail Wippelhauser is set to be the featured speaker at at 4 p.m. on Monday, May 6, during a meeting of the Stanton Bird Club at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St.

Her talk about the secret life of sturgeon will focus on the two species of sturgeon found in Maine. Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon are often called living fossils as they are among the oldest bony fish with fossils going back 65 million years, according to a news release from Jeri Maurer, Stanton Bird Club board president.

After receiving masters and doctorate degrees at the University of Maine, Wippelhauser taught for several years at the UMaine and the College of the Atlantic. She worked for the Department of Marine Resources from 1996 until her retirement in 2022.

During her tenure at DMR she represented the department during the relicensing of hydropower facilities; served on the Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission technical committees for American Eel, Striped Bass, and Atlantic Sturgeon; and conducted research on American Eel, Striped Bass, Alewife, Blueback Herring, Shortnose Sturgeon, and Atlantic Sturgeon.

The public is welcome. This lecture is free of charge.

The Stanton Bird Club owns and manages the Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary in Lewiston as well as the Woodbury Nature Sanctuary in Monmouth and Litchfield.

More information can be found at stantonbirdclub.org and on the club’s Facebook page.

 

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