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I hope everyone already knows about the meeting on IVORY GULLS tonight with Dr. Mark Mallory of Acadia Univ. Biology. BUT, in addition, PLEASE NOTE (re an old request for info' from whom??, re an expert on ARCTIC PLANTS) that MARK'S WIFE, CAROLYN (Mallory?), is just such an expert. I can get Mark's and Carolyn's contact info' for whomever is looking for such. The announcement below originated from Patrick Kelly, BNS's programmes chair. P.S. ALL ARE WELCOME AT ALL BNS EVENTS (meetings and nearly all field trips). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. ------------------ The regular monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take place Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:30 PM in Room BAC241 of the Beveridge Arts Centre of Acadia University on the corner of Main Street and Highland Avenue, Wolfville. Parking is available off Highland Avenue, on Acadia Street, and at the parking area around the Robie Tufts Nature Centre. Everyone is welcome. The main presentation will be: Looking for a White Needle in a Snow- covered Haystack: Searching for Canada’s Ivory Gulls by 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 Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == MAIL COURIER PO Box 15000 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/pipermail/ members_blomidonnaturalists.ca/attachments/20121113/2fd3a718/ attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Members mailing list Members@blomidonnaturalists.ca http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ members_blomidonnaturalists.ca
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