Birds and Climate Change: Developing Your Own Simple 5 Point Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Speaker: KIM BOSTWICK Curator, Birds and Mammals Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates Ithaca NY 14850
MAY 18: Saturday, 10 am to noon At the: Visitors Center Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge FREE to the public - Refreshments served FAMILY friendly! In this talk Kim relates her love of science and nature to the current climate crisis and its implications for biodiversity. After outlining the "climate change basics", she shares specific stories of how birds are responding to climate change, closing her talk with a more personal message. Sharing her response to the climate change crisis as a parent and a naturalist, she outlines a 5-point plan that each of us can use to organize our own response to climate change. About the speaker: Originally from upstate New York, Kim Bostwick received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2002, and since then has worked as the curator of birds and mammals at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Bostwick's research focuses on bird behavior and evolution. Her research program has allowed Bostwick to travel throughout Central and South America, as well as to South Africa, and Papua New Guinea to audio and video record birds. In 2005 Bostwick was featured in Nature's "Deep Jungles" three-part series, where she danced like a Red-capped Manakin to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean". This video clip was posted to YouTube where it went viral and has been viewed millions of times, spawned many knock-offs, and brought great fame and many fans to a very deserving, but otherwise little known bird. Her research on the Club-winged Manakin was featured in National Geographic in May of 2012. Recently, spurred by the birth of her two children, Bostwick shifted her career to become more active in science outreach as it relates to climate change. Last August she became a certified member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Climate Leadership Corp. She plans to use her scientific literacy and communication skills to translate climate science for general audiences, with the specific goal of motivating behavioral changes through science-based story-telling. Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu<mailto:l...@cornell.edu> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
