The Early Bear Gets the Goose: Polar Bears, Snow Geese and Climate Change
Robert Rockwell
Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Conservation biologist Robert Rockwell is the director of animal research at La Pérouse Bay Tundra Biology Station, the primary research site of the collaborative Hudson Bay Project. Rockwell's work focuses on the long-term monitoring of snow geese in this coastal tundra ecosystem. His research is in population dynamics, community ecology, lifetime reproductive success, and the genetic structure and gene flow of migratory waterfowl such as snow geese, emperor geese, northern pintails and spectacled eiders. Rockwell is a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History Ornithology Department and a professor at CUNY City College. He holds a PhD in biology from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. The 2009 Paul L. Errington Lecture.Cosponsored By:
- Agronomy
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- Environmental Programs
- IA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Natural Resource Ecology & Management
- Program in Creative Writing and the Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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