Tracking Birds: From Individuals to Populations
31.01.2011
Tracking populations of birds has attracted the attention of both amateurs and professional ornithologists for decades. Knowledge of bird species relies on data collection both by professionals and ‘citizen science’. In the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series on February 2nd 2011 at UCC, Professor John O’Halloran will consider the populations of some of Ireland’s common, and not so common bird species: their populations and biology. Particular attention will focus on swans, swallows and dippers.

John O’Halloran is Head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, UCC. He holds a BSc in Zoology and a PhD and DSc in Ecotoxicology. He has published over 150 papers, book chapters and technical reports and has conducted field-based research, from Bermuda to Banagher. He was the founder of Ireland’s first terrestrial bird monitoring program. His main research attempts to understand the role environmental change, including climate, pollutants and normal biological processes play in the population dynamics, ecology and physiology of organisms, mostly in bir

The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 at 8pm in Boole II Lecture Theatre. The lecture series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS.

Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/Lecture2011.pdf

Admission is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

Picture: Professor John O'Halloran

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