Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements (Version 9.2 January 2024)

This acknowledgement list is intended to include all whose encouragement and contributions, large or small, have helped in the compilation of the ORL since work began on it in 2004, but it will always be incomplete because the ORL continuously receives information and constructive advice from so many people! We include authors of ground-breaking books. We also acknowledge those authors who have helped us by posting their papers promptly on ResearchGate or on open-access websites. The ORL working group members are no different from the rest of the human race in that we may have overlooked or simply forgotten to mention someone and so do let us know if your contribution or that of someone you know has not been properly acknowledged.

Tomas Aarvak
Saeed Abbas
Çağan Abbasoğlu
Raziyeh Abdilzadeh
Peter Adriaens
Karen Agababayn
Susanne Åkesson
Ali al-Amari
Frederik Albrecht
Alexandre Aleixo
Thomas Alerstam
Mansour Aliabadian
Ali Alieslam
Raziyeh Abdilzadeh
Abdulrahman Alsirhan
Per Alström
Abdullah Alsuhaibany
Roberto Ambrosini
Vasil Ananian
Charles Anderson
Alessandro Andreotti
Michael Westerberg Andersen
Ian Andrews
Phil Andrews
Oleg Andreyenkov
Natalya Andreyenkova
Ivaylo Angelov
Pieru Ao
Tayabeh Arbabi
Vladimir Arkhipov
Elena A Artemyeva
Dibyendu Ash
Sveta Ashby
Laila Ashour
Gregory Askew
The late Simon Aspinall
Phil Atkinson
Imad Atrash
Aurélien Audevarde
Jeremy Austin
Mark Avery
Raffäel Ayé
Samer Azar
Jem Babbington
Franz Bairlein
Sherif Baha el Din
Allan J Baker
Georgiy B Bakhtadze
Dawn Balmer
Fateme Bameri
John Bannon
Filippo Barbanera
Christos Barboutis
Clive R Barlow
Nyambayar Batbayar
Romina Batista
Stuart Bearhop
Natalie Beenaerts
Hossein Barani Beiranvand
Soner Bekir
Viktor Belik
Alexander Belyaev
The late Oleg V Belyalov
Yevgeney Belousov
Rob van Bemmelen
Arnoud B van den Berg
Patrick Bergier
Peter Berthold
Keith Betton
Yashodhan Bhatia
Rob Bijlsma
Tim M Blackburn
Giovanni Boano
Peter Boesman
Maria I Bogdanova
Roeland A Bom
Alexander L Bond
Richard Bonsor
Dr WRP Bourne
Chris Bowden
Rauri CK Bowie
John Boyd
Mattia Brambilla
Axel Braünlich
Vincent Bretagnolle
Martins Briedis
Vojtěch Brlík
Anne-Laure Brochet
Michael W Bruford
Sergei Bukreev
Graham Bundy
Graeme Buchanan
Reto Burri
Simon Busuttil
Tianlong Cai
Oscar Campbell
Geoff Carey
Giorgos Catsadorakis
David Černý
Dan Chamberlain
Harviner Chandigarh
Abhinand Chandran
Stephen Chapman
Nikita Chernetsov
Giorgio Chiozzi
Les Christides
Rajesh Choudhury
Alice Cibois
Dûrzan Cîrano
Juhasz Claire-Cécile
Nigel Cleere
Peter Clement
Callan Cohen
Nigel Collar
J Martin Collinson
Mark John Costello
Peter Colston
Maelle Connan
Craig Constance
Sal Cooke
José Luis Copete
Steve Copsey
Andrea Corso
Sarah A Cowles
The late Peter Cowan
The late Alan Crabtree
Mike Crewe
Pierre-André Crochet
Cristian Cuevas-Caballé
Tristan Cumer
Marco Cuoco
Mark Cutts
Shashank Dalvi
Iderbat Damba
Daniel Keith Danckwerts
Batmunkh Davaasuren
Normand David
Alan Davies
Geoffrey Davison
Judy Dawes
Mike Dawson
Julia J Day
Simon Delany
Ron Demey
Xueqin Deng
Mark Dennis
Vijayendra Desai
Roger Dickey
Edward Dickinson
Israel Didham
René E van Dijk
Andrew Dixon
Paul Donald
David B Donsker
Sergei Drovetski
Matthew Dufort
Paul Dufour
Jonathan Dunn
Nicolas Dussex
Sumita Roy Dutta
Gennadiy Dyakin
Gadzhibek Dzamirzhoev
James A Eaton
Enno B Ebels
Ron Efrat
Jaanus Elts
Javier Elorriaga
Can Elverici
Arzu Gürsoy Ergen
Hanne Eriksen
Jens Eriksen
Salem Essakar
Graham Etherington
Antonia Ettwein
David Ewbank
Phil Ewels
Pekka Fågel
Nader Fahd
Lei Fang
Zulfu Faradjli
Nadheer A Fazaa
Vassily Fedorenko
Ahunim Fenitie
Flavio Ferlini
Ian Fisher
Jon Fjeldså
Martin Flade
Peter Flint
Robert Flood
Marc Foggin
Ruud Foppen
Giovanni Forcina
Marc Imanuel Förschler
Dick Forsmann
Jérôme Fournier
Jimmy de Fouw
Tony Fox
Richard Fox
Roberto Carlos Frias-Soler
C Hilary Fry
Jérôme Fuchs
Eva Fuglei
Prof Robert Furness
Andrea Galimberti
The late Michael Gallagher
The late Anita Gamauf
Prasad Ganpule
Jorge García-Macía
Juan Carlos García-Ramírez
JM Garg
Kritika Garg
Steve Garvie
The late Martin Garner
Kai Gedeon
Daniel Gelbart
Khaled al-Ghanem
S Mahmoud Ghasempouri
Fatemeh Ghorbani
Mehdi Ghorbani
Rosemary Gibson
Frank Gill
Len N Gillman
James Gilroy
Jan Ove Gjershaug

Ramaz Gokhelashvili
Sundev Gombobaatar
Meidad Goren
Gerard Gorman
Jérôme Goudet
Jonathan A Green
Jeremy Greenwood
David Grémillet
Andrew Grieve
Monica Guerrini
Arzu Gürsoy-Ergen
Dilip Gupta
Chyi Yin Gwee
Mohamed Habib
Thomas G Hadjikyriakou
Rashed Al Hajji
Tomas A Haraldsson
Ron Haran
Chris Harbard
Elisabeth Haring
Mike P Harris
Autumn-Lynn Harrison
Ian Harrison
Peter Harrison
Stanislav Harvančík
Ohad Hatzofe
Gerard Heckel
Wieland Heim
Michael Heiss
Martin Hellicar
The late Peter Hellyer
Jens Hering
Mariano Hernández
Erik Hirschfeld
Keith A Hobson
James Hogg
Ben Holt
Ted Hoogendorn
Christopher Hormann
Jon Hornbuckle
John Hopkins
David Holler
Ajit Hota
Steve Howell
Caroline Howes
Jack P Hrushka
Zuhao Huang
Baz Hughes
Chris Hughes
Mark F Hulme
Julian P Hume
Laurence Humeau
Malcolm Hunter
David Hyrenbach
Petar Iankov
Luca Ilahiane
Jacques van Impe
Tim Inskipp
Martin Irestedt
Farheena Iqbal
The late Askar Isabekov
Paul Isenmann
Vladimir Ivanitskii
Bojidar Ivanov
Tuomo Jaakonen
Justin Jansson
Sanjeev Jassal
Sébastien Jaquemet
Praveen Jayadevan
Sharif al-Jbour
P Jeganathan
Lukas Jenni
Mike Jennings
Frédéric Jiguet
Ulf Johansson
Paul B Jones
Knud Andreas Jønsson
Michael J Jowers
Eduardo de Juana
Jan van de Kam
Laura Kamp
Hakan Karaardıç
Vladimir Karassev
Max Kasparek
Gaurav Kataria
Kazuto Kawakami
Mischa Keijmel
Chris Kehoe
Jonathan D Kennedy
Martyn Kennedy
Kevin Kerr
Oliver Kersten
Mimi Kessler
Abolghasem Khaleghizadeh
Asgar Khan
Leander Khil
Fares Khoury
Yosef Kiat
Ben F King
Howard King
Alex Kirschel
Guy Kirwan
The late Richard Klim
Alan Knox
Evgeny Kob’lik
Stephan Koblmüller
Peter Köhler
Yulia A Kolesnikova
George Konstantinou
Sergei Kornev
Michał Korniluk
Erkki Korpimäki
Mikhail Koropov
Alyona Koshkina
Maxim Koskin
Prasad Kotian
Andrey Kovalenko
Peter Kovalik
Jelena Kralj
Alex Kreuzberg
Elena Kreuzberg-Mukhina
Gerhard Krinner
Lucas Krüger
Alexey Kryukov
Justina Kubacka
Kuzey Cem Kulaçoğlu
Raman Kumar
Florian Kunz
Shantanu Kuveskar
Pavel Kvartalnov
Laura Kvist
Choi Soon Kyoo
Peter Lack
Eric Lafforgue
Paulo Lago
Philip Lavretsky
Łukas Ławicki
Paul Leader
Christopher Leahy
Don-Jean Léandri-Breton
Alexander Charles Lees
Norbert Lefranc
Vincent Legrand
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Thomas Lehmberg
Fumin Lei
Heather RL Lerner
Nick Lethaby
Sir Christopher Lever
David Li
Miriam Liedvogel
Bryan TM Lim
David Lindo
Åke Lindström
Amanda Lisson
Ivan Literák
Yang Liu
Egor Loktionov
Pascual López-López
Vladimir M Loskot
Gordan Lukač
Zhijun Ma
Duncan Macdonald
Grzegorz Maciorowski
Michael McGrady
Barry J McMahon
The late Steve Madge
Dorna Majab
Prasanna Mamidala
Clive Mann
Joseph D Manthey
Dominik Marchowski
Irina Marova
Jochen Martens
Jim Martin
Nicolas Martinez
Frederico C Martins
The late Rod Martins
Christopher JW McClure
Mike McGrady
Brian Meadows
Peter C Meijer
Ugo Mellone
Tatiana Menshikova
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg
Ruth Miller
Michael SL Mills
David Mindell
Dominic Mitchell
Rami Mizmelin
István Moldován
Nick Moran
Devrasinh Mori
Neil Morris
Nial Moores
Robert G Moyle
Taej Mundkur
David Murdoch
David J Murrell
Andy Musgrove
Sabir B Muzaffar
Yann Muzika
Soumyajit Nandy
Hood al Naseer
Martina Nasuelli
Rossy Natale
Montague Neate-Clegg
Carina Nebel
Artem V Nedoluzhko
Davide Nespoli
Júlio M Neto
Vincent Nijman
Jude J Niroshan
Daniel Occhiato
Ivar Ojaste
Klaus Malling Olsen
Georges Olioso
Urban Olsson
Alexey Opaev
Gerard Oreel
Jente Ottenburghs
Martin Päckert
Evgeniy Panov
Connor T Panter

Liviu G Pârâu
Marco Pavia
Jaysukh Parekh
Will J Peach
Tommy Pedersen
Kelvin S-H Peh
Irene Pellegrino
Stefan Pentzold
Esra Per
Alexander Perevozov
Robert Perez
Utku Perktaş
Yoav Perlman
Christopher Perrins
Lars Petersson
Richard A Phillips
Theunis Piersma
David Pineau
Patrick Pinet
Derek Pomeroy
Jean-Marc Pons
René Pop
Mike Pope
Richard Porter
Ron Porter
Mehdi Pour-Abedi
Somayeh Pourebrahimi
John Poyner
Petras Prakas
Jayadevan Praveen
Petr Procházka
Anand Prasad
Mike Prince
Richard Prior
Robert Prŷs-Jones
Petra Quillfeldt
Mazim B Qumsiyeh
Rainer Raab
Marc Raes
Sachin Rai
Marko Raković
Houssein Rayaleh
Ghassan Ramadan-Jaradi
Pamela Rasmussen
Laurent Raty
Yaroslav A Red’kin
Nigel Redman
Eileen C Rees
Frank Rheindt
Colin Richardson
Roger Riddington
Martin Riesing
Annette Rinke
Marta Riutort
Magnus Robb
Phil Roberts
The late Tom Roberts
Gérard Rocamora
Guillermo Rodriguez
Danny I. Rogers
Michael S Romanov
Gloria Romello
Kees Roselaar
The late Mindy Rosenzweig
Morten Ross
Lenka Rozsypalová
Tobias Roth
Alexandre Roulin
Philip D Round
Marcus Rowcliffe
Julio Rozas
Alex Rukhaia
Ómar Runólfsson
Khaled al Sabt
Peter Sackl
Keren R Sadanandan
Reena Saeed
Rebecca J Safran
Volker Salewski
Mudhafar Salim
Jessie F Salter
Veronika Samotskaya
Maria Marta Sander
George Sangster
Saltore Saparbaev
Merlène Saunier
Michel Sawan
Fedor S Sharko
David Schenen
Uwe Schröder
Manuel Schweizer
Elizabeth SC Scordato
The late Derek Scott
Richard Seargeant
Georgy A Semenov
Sampath S Seneviratne
Lider Sinav
Arya Shafaeipour
Imran Shah
GV Shakula
Subir Bahadur Shakya
Muhammad al Shanfari
Feder S Sharko
Charles J Sharp
Frederick H Sheldon
Rob Sheldon
Dmitriy Shevtsov
Hadi P SheykhAlikelayeh
Hadoram Shirihai
Dachi Shoshitashvili
MV Shreeram
Serg Silan
Jan Škrábal
Yuri A Sleptsov
Mark Smiles
Tatyana Smirnova
Gisela Sobral
Diana V Solovyeva
Gang Song
Sarah A Sonsthagen
Rodrigo P Corrêa de Sousa
Vincent van der Spek
Hamish G Spencer
Claire Spottiswoode
The late Arthur Stagg
David Stanton
Ulf Ståhle
Ivan J Starikov
Benjamin Steffen
Gerard H Steinhaus
Katarzyna Stępniewska
Martin Stervander
Roine Strandberg
Jane Stylianou
Nicholas Styubko
Alexander Suh
Ahmed Saeed Șuleiman
Lars Svensson
Norman Deans van Swelm
Brian Sykes
The late Evgeny E Syroechkovskiy
Tibor Szép
Tamás Székely
Nadim Taleb
Qingdong Tang
Jose Tavares
Rebecca Taylor
Sahar Javaheri Tehrani
Jean-Claude Thibault
Scott A Thomson
Dieter Thomas Tietze
Ulrich Tigges
David Tipling
Joseph Tobias
Mohammad Tohidifar
Pavel S Tomkovich
Antero Topp
Till Töpfer
Rob Tovey
Steve Trewick
Purevsuren Tsolmonjav
Simon Tull
Sheela A Turbek
Donald A Turner
Chris van Turnhout
Tommy Tyrberg
OlgaTzortzakaki
Magnus Ullman
Santiago Urquijo
Al Uy
Ülo Väli
Jos van der Ven
Alexandre Villers
Keith Vinicombe
Gary Voelker
Vladimir Vorobyov
Daan Vreugdenhil
The late DIM (Ian) Wallace
The late Frank Walker
Xin Wang
Bruno Walther
The late Francis Ward
Effie Warr
John Warr
Arend Wassink
Colin Wearn
Richard Webb
Chentao Wei
Lucia Weinman
Geoff Welch
Mic Wells
Pieter Wessels
David Whaley
Mark J Whittingham
The late Nick P Williams
Mike Wilson
Michael Wink
Edwin Winkel
Hans Winkler
Hannes Wolfgramm
Tim Worfolk
The late Martin Woodcock
Sam Woods
Eddy Wymenga
Canwei Xia
Anna Olegovna Yasko
Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz
Pierre Yésou
Emin Yoğurtcuoğlu
Reuven Yosef
Mostafa Yusefi
Frank Zachos
Shrey Zala
Dezhi Zang
Fatah Zarei
Min Zhao
Diana Zhigir
Xinru Zhao
Bing-Run Zhu
Dario Zuccon
Nataliya V Zueva
Kirk Zufelt
Leo Zwarts