A Virginia Tech doctoral student has been awarded the 2010 Stephen M. Russell Graduate Lectureship by the Bristol Bird Club (TN/VA).
The award, consisting of a monetary consideration and lectureship, goes to David E. Kramar, Department of Geography. His selection was announced by the Russell Lectureship administration. The selection recognizes Kramar "for his years of research and contribution to the understanding of environmental mechanisms in Virginia that support the methylation, transport, and subsequent uptake of mercury by species such as the Bald Eagle." Virginia has a large population of breeding eagles which is believed to be about 700 nests. Other personalities of past Russell laureates include: Andrew W. Jones, student at the University of Minnesota and with the Bell Museum of Natural History, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior who is currently the William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology and Head of the Department of Ornithology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH. Brian J. Olsen, presently Research Professor and Lecturer, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine. He was a student in the Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech. Lesley P. Bulluck, the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and now on the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Biology teaching ecology. The Bristol Bird Club's lectureship honors Russell, a prominent American ornithologist who is retired (emeritus), from teaching and research in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. He is well known as an authority on the birds of Sonora. He is Curator Emeritus of The University of Arizona's Bird Collection. Russell's dissertation studied the ecology and distribution of the birds of British Honduras (Belize), which was published as the first A.O.U. Ornithological Monograph. He taught six year at LSU-New Orleans before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1964. He retired from Arizona in 1996 and lives in Tucson. He earned his Ph.D. under George H. Lowery at LSU. In 1950, Russell was a charter member and founder of the Bristol Bird Club while a high school student at Abingdon, VA. ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
