We’re excited to announce that BAM has joined Biodiversity Pathways!

For over 20 years, BAM has been managed as a collaborative, multi-institutional academic project through the University of Alberta and l’Université Laval. As of April 1, 2025, BAM has become the fourth initiative under Biodiversity Pathways, a non-profit that develops and implements scientifically rigorous environmental monitoring programs across Canada. 

With this migration comes a new organizational structure for BAM. We are pleased to announce that Elly Knight will take on the new role of Operational Director for this next chapter. Erin Bayne will move from his role as Steering Committee Lead to Academic Director. The other existing Steering Committee members—Steve Cumming, Diana Stralberg, and Jeff Ball—will form the inaugural members of an Advisory Committee that will provide strategic guidance for BAM.

After 20 years as an extremely successful collaborative project, BAM is excited to enter a new phase of its contributions to boreal bird conservation and we can’t think of a better way to facilitate and deepen those contributions than as part of the Biodiversity Pathways family. – Elly Knight, Operational Director

In recognition of this new home, BAM is tweaking its name to the Boreal Avian Modelling Centre. The migration of BAM under Biodiversity Pathways will bring many efficiencies and new opportunities, including a deepening of existing synergies with Biodiversity Pathways and its affiliate, the ABMI. This move will maintain and improve BAM’s ability to provide long-term science and products to support migratory bird management and conservation across the boreal region of North America.

Learn more at biodiversitypathways.ca.

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