John Salzer (Wesleyan University)
	   Properties of Galaxies Discovered in 
	"Blind" HI Surveys - ADBS & ALFALFA Galaxies

 I will describe results from recent and current observational
 programs to systematically study the properties of galaxies
 detected in surveys that select objects via their 21-cm HI line
 emission.  Because these HI-selected surveys find galaxies
 independently of their optical appearance, they are "unbiased"
 in the sense that they include large numbers of dwarf and low
 surface brightness galaxies that are historically under-represented
 in traditional galaxy catalogs.  Here we report results from
 broad-band and narrow-band H-Alpha imaging projects, as well
 as nebular spectroscopy of HII regions taken with the goal of
 measuring abundances.