Evening Meeting ADU Speakers Animal Demography Unit
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18 March 2010
19:15 - 21:00
18 March ADU Speakers Animal Demography Unit
A double act this evening with Dr Magda Remisiewicz and Yahkat Barshep from the ADU.
Magda obtained her PhD in 2003 at the University of Gdansk, Poland. Magda’s main research interests are the patterns and strategies of large-scale migrations of birds in her two favourite groups - waders and passerines. Magda has taken part in many research expeditions, such as to Bolivia for an assessment of wildlife in an Amazon rainforest nature reserve. A keen bird ringer since 1995, in 1997 she launched an international research project on the migration patterns of the Wood Sandpiper. As a part of her wader research in South Africa she has conducted wader ringing at the Barberspan Bird Sanctuary. Apart from ringing and birding, Magda’s passions are travelling and folk music.
Yahkat did her BSc (Hons) in Zoology at the University of Jos, Nigeria, and her Masters in Conservation Biology at the AP Leventis Ornithological Institute in Jos and at the University of Lund in Sweden. Her PhD topic is the migration strategy of the Curlew Sandpiper and her supervisors are Prof. Les Underhill, Dr Clive Minton (Melbourne) and Dr Pavel Tomkovich (Moscow). In Nigeria, she did research on the ecology of the endemic Rock Firefinch, a species only described a decade ago. She enjoys reading and birding.
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