Sarah Meadows received her M.S. in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies wildlife management of terrestrial vertebrates. Sarah began work on her PhD within the Environmental Objective of ARGOS in early 2007. Her postgraduate project aims to use birds as indicators of wider ecosystem biodiversity on New Zealand sheep/beef farms and identify associations between presence and relative abundance of focal bird species in relation to habitat structure and composition and farm management scheme.