Alaska Bird Conference flocks to Cordova

Sarah Hoepfner, a 2015 Cordova High School graduate who is now at Humboldt State University, was a co-author and the poster presenter Dec. 8, for a research project investigating shorebirds that laid their eggs in nests that had been used in previous years. Sarah has worked on a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shorebird research project in Barrow, Alaska the past two summers. The Alaska Bird Conference took place in Cordova Dec. 6-9, at the Cordova Center.
Photo by Pete Hoepfner/For The Cordova Times
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Cinthia Gibbens-Stimson
Cinthia Gibbens-Stimson is a staff writer and photographer for The Cordova Times. She has been writing in one form or another for 30-plus years and has had a longstanding relationship with The Cordova Times starting in 1989. She's been an Alaskan since 1976 and first moved to Cordova in 1978. She's lived in various West Texas towns; in Denver, Colorado; in McGrath, Cordova, Galena, Kodiak, Wasilla, Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska and in Bangalore, India. She has two children and three grandchildren. She can be reached at cgibbens-stimson@thecordovatimes.com or follow her on Instagram @alaskatoindia.