Curriculum Vitae - abbreviated

Academic History:

B.Sc. 1980. Zoology (Charter Class for B.Sc. Oceanography degree), University of British Columbia.

Professional Affiliations:

American Ornithological Society (AOS) - Collection Committee member since 2012

American Ornithological Society (AOS) - Fellow since 2020

Society for Wildlife Forensic Science (SWFS) - Certified Avian Forensic Morphologist

Darren Irwin Lab UBC - Associated Member

Guest lecturer or guest lab instructor:

BCIT - British Columbia Institute of Technology
Fish, Wildlife and Recreation 2-year diploma program
Lead a 1-day lab on avian preparation which includes a lecture on: Determining cause of death and avian safety protocols

QU - Quest University: Squamish
LIF 3016 – Avian Biology: At the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum, lead a lab on avian morphometric using avian specimens; At Quest University, lead a lab on avian specimen preparation
LIF 3012 – Island Biogeography: At the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum, lead a field trip to get a hands-on look at diverse island avian taxa

VIU – Vancouver Island University
BIOL 325 - Lead a 1-day lab on avian preparation which includes a lecture on: Determining cause of death and avian safety protocols

UBC – University of British Columbia, main Vancouver campus
BIOL 427: Ornithology (and Herpetology)
-Lecture on avian moult
-Help Teaching Assistant during bird ID labs; lead wing preparation lab

UBCO – University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus
BIOL 372: Field Ornithology - Lecture/demonstration on how to prepare bird specimens, plus what can be learned by looking at internal anatomy

Regular speaker for: Bloedel Conservatory, Meadowlark Nature Festival, Nature Vancouver and for the Way Cool series held at the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Symposium Convener:

Szabo, I, T. Topfer, S. Frahnert and K. Winker. 2018. Round Table Discussion of Avian Bird Curators: Developing bird collections through growth and enhancement (two sessions (Aug 22 & Aug 24th, 2018) held in different venues. IOC, International Ornithology Congress, (Vancouver, BC).

Szabo, I., C. Cicero, C. Milensky and K. Winker. 2012. Using and contributing to avian collections workshop. . NAOC-V, North American Ornithological Conference-V, (Vancouver, BC).

Conference abstracts - Oral conference presentations

Lapsansky, A.B., I. Szabo, B.W. Tobalske. 2021. Do multifunctional locomotor demands constrain the evolution of the avian wing? Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (virtual conference due to COVID-19, 2 January – 28 February 2021).

Graham, B., C. Cicero, D. Strickland, J. Woods, H. Coneybeare, K. Dohms, I. Szabo, and T. Burg. 2020. Shades of grey? Cryptic genetic diversity and cytonuclear discordance characterize contact zones among Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) morphotypes in western North America. North American Ornithological Conference (virtual due to COVID-19, 10-15 August 2020).

Szabo, I, G. Hurley, S. Cavaghan, and D. E. Irwin. 2017. OMBIRDS: Online museum of bird images, recordings, and DNA samples. 10th International Avian Curators Conference (Paris, France).

Kearns, A., M. Restani, I. Szabo, S. Hogner, J. A. Kim, H. Richardson, M. Gobbert, J. Marzluff, R. Fleischer, A. Johnsen and K. Omland. 2016. Speciation reversal in ravens: genomic evidence of mosaic genomes in western North America. NAOC-VI, North American Ornithological Conference-V, (Washington, DC).

Szabo, I. 2015. Keeping preparators save. 9th International Avian Curators Conference (Moscow, Russia).

Szabo, I. 2015. Keeping wildlife control personnel save: A first responder’s resource on avian mortalities. North American Bird Strike Conference, (Montreal, QC).

Exhibit Collaborations

Bird-related exhibits. 2012 - present (or ongoing). UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

Nuno Porto. March 2017 - January 2018. Amazonia: The Rights of Nature. UBC Museum of Anthropology.

Jennifer Kramer. Nov 2016 - Apr 2017. Layers of Influence: Unfolding both Across Cultures. UBC Museum of Anthropology.

Conference abstracts - Poster presentations

Lapsansky, A.B., I. Szabo, B.W. Tobalske. 2021. Wings in air and water: Have multifunctional locomotor demands constrained the evolution of the avian wing? (virtual conference due to COVID-19, 2 January–28 February, 2021). Wade Award winner for best student poster in the Division of Phylogenetic and Comparative Biology.

Szabo, I. 2017. Who Made this? Using avian forensic morphology techniques to determine the cultural identity of an ethnographic object. Society for Wildlife Forensic Science Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland).

Kearns, A.M., A. Johnsen, I. Szabo, J. Kim, H. Richardson, M.K. Gobbert, R.C. Fleischer, M. Restani and K. Omland. 2014. Deep mitochondrial divergence within Common Ravens: Speciation reversal in Western North America? AOU, American Ornithologist’ Union, (Estes Park, CO).

Szabo, I., S. Cavaghan, G Hurley and D. E. Irwin. 2013. OMBIRDS: A new template for creating a media voucher for archiving avian blood and its derivatives. AOU, American Ornithologist’ Union, (Chicago, IL).

Szabo, I. 2012. Electronic how-to manual on collecting internal morphology data and preparing avian vouchers. NAOC-V, North American Ornithological Conference-V, (Vancouver, BC).

Szabo, I and M. Secrest. 2012. Method used to fabricate Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) feeding surrogate puppets from salvaged owls. NAOC-V, North American Ornithological Conference-V, (Vancouver, BC).

Szabo, I. 2012. Need to build a bird specimen reference collection for forensic applications? A free downloadable manual is available at: http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/research/birds. SWFS- Society for Wildlife Forensic Science, (Jackson, WY).

Szabo, I. 2011 Bird study skin preparation website available on Beaty Biodiversity Museum website: Phase 1 – Complete. AFO-COS-WOS, Joint meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists, Cooper Ornithology Society and Wilson Ornithological Society (Kearney, NB).