Jim Verhagen is a data scientist by trade, a wildlife photographer and champion by choice, and a man with little free time by coincidence. Michelle Stantial is adoctoral student in wildlife biology and management at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and a piping plover luminary. Together, the duo hatched their NestStory data management system right here on Long Beach Island, and it has, as Verhagen noted, “changed the world of bird science.”
The project was fertilized five years ago, in LBI’s wildlife bookends, Holgate and Barnegat Light.
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