The Early Bear Gets the Goose: Polar Bears, Snow Geese and Climate Change

Conservation biologist Robert Rockwell is the director of animal research at La Pérouse Bay Tundra Biology Station, the primary research site of the collaborative Hudson Bay Project. Rockwell's work focuses on the long-term monitoring of snow geese in this coastal tundra ecosystem. His research is in population dynamics, community ecology, lifetime reproductive success, and the genetic structure and gene flow of migratory waterfowl such as snow geese, emperor geese, northern pintails and spectacled eiders. Rockwell is a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History Ornithology Department and a professor at CUNY City College. He holds a PhD in biology from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. The 2009 Paul L. Errington Lecture.