$65 | 6:00PM - 8:30PM
Meeting Location: Industry Ales, 230 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Registration Required
After a day of birding, join your fellow festival goers in downtown Chicago for dinner and drinks. Dr. Van Doren will discuss the latest scientific understanding of how migratory birds use urban areas, the challenges they face, and how we can help mitigate these impacts, with a focus on Chicago.
One drink ticket, appetizers, and buffet dinner are included with the cost of registering for this event.
In this talk, Dr. Van Doren will discuss the latest scientific understanding of how migratory birds use urban areas, the challenges they face, and how we can help mitigate these impacts, with a focus on Chicago.
Dr. Benjamin Van Doren studies the responses of migratory birds to environmental change. His research spans spatial and population scales and unites ecology, evolution, behavior, and conservation. Dr. Van Doren earned a PhD in Zoology from Oxford University, and he has received achievement awards from the American Ornithological Society, Linnean Society of London, and Zoological Society of London. Dr. Van Doren recently joined the University of Illinois as a faculty member in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, where he leads the Migration Biology Lab. The lab’s recent work focuses on how light pollution and human-dominated landscapes influence migratory birds’ ecology and behavior, and how new machine learning techniques and modeling approaches are pushing ecology forward while facilitating opportunities for conservation action.
Getting there: We highly recommend taking the Red Line to get here. The Jackson Red Line stop is right around the corner from Industry Ales.