The lecturers listed below offer to give illustrated talks in the UK on various aspects of natural history, ecology and conservation in the CIS countries or the Soviet Union.
Please contact the lecturers well in advance for further details, and to discuss any equipment needed, as well as to agree any fee, expenses, travel, venue, board and lodging. Unless otherwise stated lectures last about one hour, are illustrated with 35mm colour slides, and are intended for amateur naturalists.
Inclusion of a lecturer on this list does not constitute a recommendation, and details given are not guaranteed to be up-to-date.
Graham Bell
'Seabirds', Chapel Row, Seahouses, Northumberland NE68 7RL
tel./fax 01665 721 799
e-m
Areas visited: Russian Arctic, particularly N.E.Siberia.
Main interests: general natural history, particularly birds.
Lectures:
(a) 'Siberian Dream': an expedition in 1992 to N.E.Siberia to fulfil a lifelong
dream - to find nesting Ross's Gulls.
Please contact Graham for a full list of his lectures (with slides, tapes, music, video, prose, poetry, imitations, ...)
David Boddington
The Down House, BROMYARD, Herefordshire, HR7 4QH
tel. 01885 482495
e-m olavbod@waitrose.com
Areas visited: Russian Arctic; Tyan-Shan Mountains.
Main interests: general natural history, particularly birds.
Lectures:
(a) 'A Naturalist in Kazakstan': the habitats and especially the flora of the
northern slopes of the Tyan-Shan Mountains.
Geoffrey Harper
19/3 Warriston Road, EDINBURGH, EH7 4HN
tel./fax 0131 558 3139
e-m gharper@holyrood.ed.ac.uk
Areas visited: Altay; Kola Peninsula; Putorana Mountains; Ural Mountains; Kamchatka; Tyan-Shan Mountains; Central Forest Zapovednik.
Main interests: general natural history, especially botany; history of Russian/Soviet ecology & conservation.
Lectures:
(a) 'The Boreal Forest - from the Atlantic to the Pacific': the taiga as
seen at six sites from the Black Wood of Rannoch to the krumholz of Kamchatka.
(b) 'The Kola Peninsula - Scotland 6000 years ago': the Khibiny Mountains
in the central Kola Peninsula, north of the Arctic Circle in the far north-west
of Russia.
(c) 'Kamchatka - Scotland 250 million years ago': the volcanoes of Kamchatka,
and their natural history.
(d) 'Aksu-Jabagly - jewel of the Tyan-Shan': natural history of the western
Tyan-Shan Mountains.
(e) 'Zapovedniks and Global Environmentalism': Russian/Soviet approaches
to ecology and conservation over the last century, and their relevance to the
future. This lecture is intended for serious environmentalists and policy-makers.
(NOTE: FOR THE TIME BEING THESE LECTURES ARE NOT AVAILABLE.)
John Quinn
Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS
tel. 01865-792773 (home); 01865-(2)71162 (work)
fax 01865-271168
e-m john.quinn@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Areas visited: Taymyr Peninsula
Main interests: ornithology
Lectures:
(a) 'Red-breasted Geese & Peregrine Falcons: Unlikely Neighbours in the Siberian
Arctic': the biology of these two species, and what it is like working in Arctic Russia.
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