Science Literacy Week: Signals from Seabirds: Messages from the Ocean

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, 7-8:30 p.m.
IIC-2001, Bruneau Centre for Research and Innovation

A lecture with Dr. Bill Montevecchi, Department of Psychology.

Seabirds are the most visible and compelling expressions of the world's oceans. Their lives are shaped by the vagaries and often unforgiving challenges that the ocean presents. Seabirds are Olympian performers in a quasi-predictable environment, and we gain new insight about marine life and the ocean by interrogating their behaviour and ecology. Our research in the North Atlantic provides novel informaiton about ocean climate change, fish conditions and availability, and human impacts on the sea around us. As did aboriginal peoples, New World explorers and settlers, we look to the ocean and study the seabirds for their mystery and the information they provide about their own well being and ours.

Program is free and registration is not required. Everyone is welcome. All children must be accompanied by an adult. 


Contact

Marketing & Communications

230 Elizabeth Ave, St. John's, NL, CANADA, A1B 3X9

Postal Address: P.O. Box 4200, St. John's, NL, CANADA, A1C 5S7

Tel: (709) 864-8000