Description
Bill Montevecchi is a Professor Emeritus and John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Professor [Psychology, Biology, Ocean Sciences] at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Working closely with fishermen, he and his students study birds as indicators of environmental change. Conservation is a priority with research projects aimed at bird interactions with marine and terrestrial energy developments, light pollution, fishing, climate change and recently the avian H5N1 influenza. Ongoing research projects focus on the responses of seabirds to human-created light, on the effects of seabird bycatch in fishing gear and of avian influenza H5N1 and. He invests considerable time communicating evidenced-based scientific information via media presentations and community outreach. See Land & Sea: Safeguarding seabirds | CBC.ca
