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Biographical sketch
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Oliver Komar is a conservation biologist and ornithologist, currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in biology at the University of Kansas. His dissertation is on the ecology and conservation of birds in forests and coffee plantations of El Salvador. His research has received funding from the Global Environmental Facility, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society, and several smaller foundations. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, U.S.A.I.D. environmental projects, and several non-governmental organizations in Central America and Mexico. He has served as vice president and editor for the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation. Komar holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Zoology and in Spanish from Ohio Wesleyan University. At the University of Kansas, he has been a Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellow, and is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He resides in Kansas and in San Salvador, El Salvador. E-mail okomar@ku.edu. Home-page nhm.ku.edu/komar.
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