*** THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK - MEETING PROGRAM - AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK CITY ***
The fall program begins this coming Tuesday (10 Sep 2013) with presentations from two stars from the world of professional ornithology. *6:00 pm — Scientific collecting in the digital age: Recording expeditions spanning the globe for the acoustic and visual archives of the Cornell Lab’s Macaulay Library* Assistant Curator of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Benjamin Clock is also the author of 31 species accounts of Tyrant Flycatchers in volume 9 of Handbook of the Birds of the World and a sound and video recordist for the Macaulay Library. He writes, “The Macaulay archives have been built by dedicated recordists over the past nine decades. The Library is now the largest archive of its kind, with coverage of over 7,000 species of birds and thousands of amphibians, mammals, fish and insects. My talk, featuring video and sounds recorded across the globe, will take you on a journey through the history of the archives, chronicling recording expeditions from Lab founder Arthur A. Allen’s ground-breaking work in the early twentieth century to today’s efforts to document birds of the world with high-resolution multimedia specimens.” *7:30 pm — A Century of Change in American Ornithology, Chandler S. Robbins* At 95 the undisputed dean of American ornithologists, Chandler S. Robbins recently retired as Senior Scientist at the United States Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. In his sixty years with Patuxent, he conducted many important research projects, most notably on pesticides, forest fragmentation and neo-tropical migrants, his fieldwork on the last of these taking him to wide swaths of North, Central and South America. He was the senior author of the innovative and very popular Golden Guide Birds of North America: a Guide to Field Identification, the originator of the North American Breeding Bird Survey and the author of its protocols, still in effect after almost fifty years. He has received every major award in American ornithology, including the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Arthur A. Allen Award (1979), the American Birding Association’s Ludlow Griscom Award (1984), the American Ornithologists’ Union’s Elliott Coues Award (1997) and the Linnaean Society’s Eisenmann Medal (1987), given for excellence in ornithology and encouragement of the amateur. He writes of his talk, “Having recently attended the Centennial meeting of the Brookline Bird Club at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, I have done much reflecting on the vast changes in human knowledge, in technology, in daily living, in bird populations, in wildlife habitats, and in environmental changes that affect all of the above. It has been my unique privilege to have known most of the century’s American ornithologists, to have given talks in 48 of the 50 states, and to have worked in one way or another (counting, tape recording, measuring, weighing, banding) with nearly all of North America’s breeding bird species. Our challenge for the future is to restore the close connection that our grandparents had with the natural environment so urban young people of the future can appreciate and protect the natural environment in which they live.” WHERE & WHEN Both programs are open to the public FREE OF CHARGE and will be held in the Linder Theater of the AMNH. Enter the museum from the 77th Street entrance, where the route to the auditorium will be sign posted. The first program will last approximately one hour with time before the second program to talk to the speakers, and mingle with TLS officers and council members, who can provide information on becoming a part of this thriving natural history society. For more details, please check out (and bookmark) our website: http://linnaeannewyork.org/programs.html or visit us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linnaean-Society-of-New-York/335385365977?ref=ts Hopefully many of you will be able to join us on Tuesday (no reservations necessary). Angus Wilson, Vice President, The Linnaean Society of New York -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
