Our speaker for 2025 January 28th is an excellent wildlife photographer! “The more time I spend in nature, the more wondrous it becomes to me. Yet, so many people – busy with complexity of their lives — struggle to experience it. I hope, through photography, to capture and share unique perspectives of our world that may help others feel the wonder I feel when out in the wild.” (Matt Huras)
Wildlife Science with Dr Brad Fedy Brad Fedy teaches and researches at the University of Waterloo as an Associate Professor & Prominent Wildlife Scientist. He and his students study factors that influence the fitness of animal populations, such as Greater Sage Grouse, Tree Swallow, Golden Eagle, and Sandhill Crane. He will give us an excellent overview of the complexity and sophistication of modern ecological research and action as well as sharing many tidbits about the birds that he studies.
“It’s easy to forget that human beings form a tiny two-legged minority in an overwhelmingly six-legged world.” Dr. Stephen Marshall. Dr. Marshall will be amazing us with the fascinating world of flies, insects that we tend to abhor and swat. Marshall is a University of Guelph Professor Emeritus, researching the distribution and biology of insects. Stephen Marshall is passionate about bugs. He studies biodiversity and insect species, helps with the naming, describing and classifying newly discovered six-legged creatures. He himself has discovered hundreds of species, several new genera and two new subfamilies over the decades just a fraction of the estimated one to two million species of insects that live on our planet. Dr Marshall is the author of Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity which is considered the best resource anyone looking to identify North American insects could possibly invest in. Here’s an entertaining and informative talk on insect biodiversity… Read more »