THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater
Speaker: Morgan W. Tingley, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Environmental
Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley and Visiting
Scholar, American Museum of Natural History
Subject: Avian Distributional Changes over a Century of Climate Change in
California
While climate change is generally considered a challenge for the
future, 20th century climate change has already had an effect on the ecology
and distributions of animals. For the last 8 years, researchers at the Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley have been retracing the steps of the
eminent zoologist Joseph Grinnell and resurveying the Sierra Nevada to learn
how species distributions and communities have changed over the past 100 years.
Focusing on three elevational transects through the Sierras, the work of the
“Grinnell Resurvey Project” has significantly added to our knowledge of how
fauna have adapted to climatic shifts over the last century, thus helping us to
better predict how species will respond to future shifts. Tingley will present
his research illustrating how birds in California are responding to rapidly
shifting environmental conditions. His research provides evidence over an
unusually long time span of how climate change has already begun affecting bird
ranges.
Morgan Tingley received his Masters of Science in Zoology from Oxford
University in 2005. His research interests have long focused on avian response
to anthropogenic environmental change, with particular forays into the effects
on birds of introduced species, wind farms, climate change, and fire. He is in
the final stages of writing his dissertation.
The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please join us
for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum at West 77th
Street. If you would like to meet Morgan Tingley prior to the talk, join us at
Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The
reservation will be in the name of Alice.
Alice Deutsch, Vice President
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