Laurie J. Goodrich, Ph.D. Sarkis Acopian Director of Conservation Science, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, PA. Laurie is the Director of the Acopian Center for Conservation Learning and the Hawk Mountain conservation science and international trainee program. Her work includes long-term research on movement ecology and conservation biology of Broad-winged Hawks, research on stopover ecology of forest raptors, and studies of migration patterns and population trends in raptors and songbirds. As Director she oversees Hawk Mountain’s local to global conservation science program including the long-term migration counts, world-renown traineeship program, and ongoing research on New World vultures, arctic raptors, farmland raptors, and the American kestrel. She and her colleagues work in collaboration with researchers in South America, Africa, Europe and Asia to further understanding of raptors worldwide. Laurie received her Ph.D. in Ecology from Penn State University in 2000 and a M.S. in Ecology from Rutgers University in 1982. She currently serves on the Raptor Population Index steering committee and on the Pennsylvania Ornithological Technical Committee of the Biological Survey. She served on Board of Hawk Migration Association for many years and as co-chair 2023-2024.

Pete Dunne hired Laurie for her first hawk-watching job in 1981 where she worked with Carol McIntyre to assess hawk flights at Higbee Beach and the impacts of human disturbance at the site on roosting raptors. Spending a fall immersed in Cape May raptor and bird watching community was life-changing for her and set her on a path to Hawk Mountain a few years later.