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Migration in the Natural World
May 9 @ 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
$25.00
Migration is not a new phenomenon, nor is it unusual. Since the day life appeared on this planet, it’s been on the move. Plants, animals, and ultimately people followed needed resources as climate, geography and man-made borders evolved — a pattern that continues to this day. In our new inter-disciplinary series, we examine the impact on geopolitics, societies, public health, the environment and ourselves.
In this presentation, Ryan Norris discusses how birds and butterflies travel seasonally.
Dr. Norris is an ecologist interested in the behaviour, population dynamics, and conservation of animals in seasonal environments, with a particular emphasis on migratory birds and butterflies. He obtained an MSc from York University in 2000, a PhD from Queen’s University in 2005 and was an NSERC-Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of British Columbia from 2005-2006. He was appointed a faculty position in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph in 2006, promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and received a University Research Chair in 2012. In 2019, he began a cross-appointed position as the Weston Family Senior Scientist for the Nature Conservancy of Canada.