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Spring 2008 Monday Night Seminar Video Archive
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February 4, 2008
Conservation of Boreal forest birds and the relevance of behavioral ecologists Andre Desrochers, Professor, Université Laval, Québec
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archived online! Many birds of the Boreal Forest are in trouble, and finding out why is a difficult task. André will illustrate how behavioral ecologists may – or may not ‐ help boreal bird conservation in the face of increasing human impact, but also of conceptual and technological advances in Behavioral Ecology. He will specifically address the loss of old growth, habitat isolation, and the quality of remaining forests for raising young birds successfully. Those issues will be illustrated mostly his lab's work at the Forêt Montmorency, Québec. |
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February 18, 2008
The frontier of Urban Ecology and the challenge of rejuvenating America's cities Eric Strauss, Director of Environmental Studies, Boston College
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archived online! Half the world's population and three-quarters of Americans now live in cites. This talk will focus on the nascent field of urban ecology which emphasizes the interface between the natural and built environment, and provides an interdisciplinary framework for investigators, community based practitioners and social entrepreneurs to work collaboratively towards the goal of achieving healthy urban neighborhoods in which the ecological infrastructure remains healthy and intact. |
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March 3, 2008
The ornithological frauds of Richard Meinertzhagen Robert Prys-Jones
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archived online! The British colonel Richard Meinertzhagen contributed over 20,000 specimens to the British Natural History Muesum that were collected during his globe-trotting life as a soldier and scientist. Robert will discuss the detective work and forensic research that lead to the surprising discovery of a fifty-year-old story of theft, deceit, and fraud that rocked the foundations of our understanding of this extensive collection. |
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March 31, 2008
Kiptu (Bald Eagle) the protector of the Mi'kmaq people Gerald MacDougall
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archived online! Gerald’s talk will highlight the importance of the bald eagle to the indigenous people of Atlantic Canada. He will talk about the extirpation of the eagle in Prince Edward Island and its subsequent return as well as discussing mortality in the population and what the future may hold for this magnificent bird in Atlantic Canada. |
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April 7, 2008 Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, In the Woods Julie Zickefoose, Artist and Naturalist
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archived online! In an intimate, story-telling setting, author Julie Zickefoose talks about her latest book, Letters from Eden. Through anecdote and readings, she reveals the nature of her deep connection with wild things and the places they inhabit. Julie likes to describe her true work as noticing the little things that many overlook. Photographs from her 80-acre Appalachian "Eden," and watercolors from the book provide a continuous visual backdrop to stories that are poignant, searing, and sometimes hilarious.. |
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April 21, 2008 Charles Darwin, Roger Tory Peterson, and the future of birding Ted Floyd, Editor, Birding
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archived online! The year 2009 will mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of Roger Tory Peterson's Field Guide to the Birds and the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, arguably the two most important books in the history of birding. This seminar will identify a major conflict between Peterson's and Darwin's worldviews, then look at how tension between Peterson and Darwin was largely avoided in the 20th century, and finally examine how tension between Peterson and Darwin is inevitable in the early 21st century--with significant consequences for how we appreciate and understand birds and nature. |
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April 28, 2008 An itinerant photographer of the wetlands Rosalie Winard, Artist and Naturalist
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archived online! Imagine banding 2,500 white pelican chicks at Chase Lake NWR in North Dakota, airboating on the Great Salt Lake amongst avocets, black-necked stilts and white-faced ibises, or sleeping in the middle of the Platte River in Nebraska surrounded by thousands of vociferous sandhill cranes. With her camera, Rosalie has witnessed and documented avian adaptations to habitat encroachment and the sudden disappearance and re-emergence of bird colonies. She will accompany her talk with photographs from her new book, Wild Birds of the American Wetlands, as well as photos from her personal archives. |
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April 28, 2008 Spectacular Southeast Asian woodpeckers Martjan Lammertink, Conservation Science Program, Cornell Lab of
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archived online! In the rainforests of Southeast Asia more woodpecker species co-exist than elsewhere in the world. Fourteen species routinely share one habitat, including spectacular woodpeckers like the Greater Flameback, Orange-backed Woodpecker, and Great Slaty Woodpecker. Martjan presents research results and photos from several years of fieldwork with woodpeckers in Indonesia and Myanmar. He examined niche evolution among woodpecker species in recent man-made forest fragments and on small islands, isolated since the last ice age, that experienced local loss of species over different time scales. He also assessed the impact of rainforest logging on woodpeckers. |
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