Lecture / Seminar
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
(902) 494-3294
Looking for a White Needle in a Snow-covered Haystack: Searching for Canada’s Ivory Gullsby Dr. Mark Mallory. The talk summarizes a decade’s work conducting surveys and research on Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea), an iconic seabird that has recently joined the ranks of Canada’s endangered species. Mark will go over the local ecological knowledge that prompted the early surveys, the survey results, research into contaminants in gull eggs, smoking guns that may be responsible for some of the population changes, and up-to-date results of satellite tracking work being undertaken by Acadia University MSc candidate Nora Spencer.
Dr. Mark Mallory is the newest Canada Research Chair at Acadia University, focusing on coastal wetland ecosystems. He spent 20 years as a federal government biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, working first on acid rain and boreal ecosystems in Ontario, before heading North with his family (Carolyn, Conor, Jessamyn and Olivia) to Iqaluit in 1999 to work on Arctic seabirds and landscapes. Although his overall research program is broad and examines many aspects of the ecology of coastal areas, much of his most notable work has examined year-round movements of Arctic marine birds, and the consequences of their biotransport of nutrients and contaminants from marine feeding areas to terrestrial breeding colonies. At Acadia, his research locations are split between the Arctic and coastal Nova Scotia. Mark’s wife Carolyn is a noted expert on Canadian Arctic plants, but regularly trundles off with Mark to study wild things.
patrick.kelly@dal.ca
(902) 494-3294
Looking for a White Needle in a Snow-covered Haystack: Searching for Canada’s Ivory Gullsby Dr. Mark Mallory. The talk summarizes a decade’s work conducting surveys and research on Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea), an iconic seabird that has recently joined the ranks of Canada’s endangered species. Mark will go over the local ecological knowledge that prompted the early surveys, the survey results, research into contaminants in gull eggs, smoking guns that may be responsible for some of the population changes, and up-to-date results of satellite tracking work being undertaken by Acadia University MSc candidate Nora Spencer.
Dr. Mark Mallory is the newest Canada Research Chair at Acadia University, focusing on coastal wetland ecosystems. He spent 20 years as a federal government biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, working first on acid rain and boreal ecosystems in Ontario, before heading North with his family (Carolyn, Conor, Jessamyn and Olivia) to Iqaluit in 1999 to work on Arctic seabirds and landscapes. Although his overall research program is broad and examines many aspects of the ecology of coastal areas, much of his most notable work has examined year-round movements of Arctic marine birds, and the consequences of their biotransport of nutrients and contaminants from marine feeding areas to terrestrial breeding colonies. At Acadia, his research locations are split between the Arctic and coastal Nova Scotia. Mark’s wife Carolyn is a noted expert on Canadian Arctic plants, but regularly trundles off with Mark to study wild things.
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Pricing: Free
24 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
leanna.mcdonald@acadiau.ca
902-585-1140
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