Assistant Professor of Biology at Fordham University and Fordham’s conservation biology program coordinator, J. Alan Clark and two of his doctoral students at Fordham and one of his former students (Chad Seewagan, who is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology at Pace University) will each give a summary of his or her recent research. Prof. Clark writes of this evening’s talks, “Understanding how birds interact with increasingly urbanized landscapes is essential to their conservation and to reducing negative impacts such urbanization may have on birds.” Chad Seewagen will talk about the physiological effects on migrating birds of urban parks as stopover sites, Rachel Bricklin about further research on stress in birds in urban stopover sites, Dustin Partridge about greenroofs as stopover and breeding habitat, and Prof. Clark about effects of light and noise on urban migration and how night-migrating birds navigate urban landscapes.
