David Norman (ornithologist)

David Norman (ornithologist)
David Norman
Born 1949
Nationality British
Occupation Chartered Physicist, academic
Known for Ornithology
Website
davidnorman.org.uk

Professor David Norman (born 1949[1]) is a British Chartered Physicist[2] and ornithologist, he has lived in Cheshire since 1978.[3]

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Physics

Professor Norman is a former Director of Synchotron Radiation, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Laboratory.[2] He was a visiting Professor in Surface Science at the University of Liverpool[2]

Ornithology

Since 2005[4] he has been an independent member of the United Kingdom's Rare Breeding Birds Panel[5] and he is a member of the RSPB Council,[5] and Chairman of the Merseyside Ringing Group. He is an honorary research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,[5] spending up to a month each year at their Powdermill Nature Reserve.[3]

He served on the council of English Nature from 1996-2002 (and in September 2000 became interim acting chairman for six months).[2][3] He has been chairman of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust[3] and a member of the Editorial Board for Ornithology's journal Ringing and Migration.[2] He was the founder chairman of the Mersey Estuary Conservation Group[2] and Research Committee of the Liverpool Bay Wader Study Group.[2]

In 2002 he was awarded the British Trust for Ornithology's Bernard Tucker Medal "for his outstanding scientific contributions in surveying, nest-recording and ringing birds".[6]

Bibliography

Papers

References

  1. ^ "COPAC entry for The Fieldfare". http://copac.ac.uk/wzgw?id=0811263bf24d7aea51132708cda16eed63446d&f=u&rsn=5&rn=1. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "English Nature announce acting Chairman". English Nature. 2000-09-28. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/news/story.asp?ID=200. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
  3. ^ a b c d e "Current Panel Members". Rare Breeding Birds Panel. http://www.rbbp.org.uk/rbbp-panel.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-27. 
  4. ^ Holling, Mark; the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (2007-06). "Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004". British Birds 100 (6): 321–367. ISSN 0007-0335. 
  5. ^ a b c "RSPB Council". RSPB. http://www.rspb.org.uk/about/run/council.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-26. [dead link]
  6. ^ "Medallists". BTO. 2006-06-02. http://www.bto.org/aboutBTO/accounts/medallists.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-27. 

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