Upcoming lecture at ISU.
Note that the Thursday night lecture is the official Errington Memorial
Lecture and intended for a general audience.  The Friday afternoon lecture
will likely be geared a bit more toward students and faculty, but interested
members of the public are always welcome.  Both lectures are free.

The Errington Memorial Lecture
Thursday, 15 October 2009
7:00 p.m., Great Hall, Memorial Union
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Dr. Robert Rockwell
American Museum of Natural History, Ornithology Department
Professor of Biology, City College of The City University of New York
"The Early Bear Gets the Goose:
Polar Bears, Snow Geese, and Climate Change"


Natural Resource Ecology & Management Seminar
Friday 16 October, 3:10 p.m.  164 E Lagomarcino
"Lesser snow geese: ecoterrorists of the tundra?"

Dr. Rockwell is widely known for his work as lead investigator on the Hudson
Bay Project, which studies coastal arctic tundra ecosystems and their
conservation.  He has directed the snow goose research program at La Pérouse
Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, for nearly 25 years.  His most recent work,
published in Polar Biology, discusses polar bear predation on snow goose
populations due to the earlier annual breakup of sea ice.  Dr. Rockwell has
studied the population ecology of the lesser snow goose and its effects on
arctic marshes, Common Eiders of Greenland and Canada, the birds of Wapusk
National Park (Hudson Bay, Canada), the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta of southwest
Alaska, the genetic structure of wildlife populations, and other topics.  At
the City University of New York, Dr. Rockwell teaches population ecology,
biostatistics, and conservation biology.

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.

Sponsored by: Errington Memorial Fund; Natural Resource Ecology & 
Management;
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology; IA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife 
Research Unit;
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Liberal Arts and 
Sciences; Enviornmental
Programs; Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; Program in Creative 
Writing and the
Environment; Agronomy; and Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB) 

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