David Norman (ornithologist)

Professor
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]

Physics

Professor Norman is a former Director of Synchrotron 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 & 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

  • Norman, David; Norman Arlott (1994). The Fieldfare. London :: Hamlyn,. pp. 127p. ISBN 0-600-57961-1.
  • BTO Migration Atlas (texts on common tern, wood warbler and common chaffinch)[3]
  • Birds in Cheshire and Wirral, Liverpool University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-84631-152-9
    • On behalf of the Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society
  • Norman, David (July 2005). Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press,. pp. 192p. ISBN 9780192804198.

Papers

References

  1. ↑ "COPAC entry for The Fieldfare". Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "English Nature announce acting Chairman". English Nature. 2000-09-28. Archived from the original on 2007-07-22. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Current Panel Members". Rare Breeding Birds Panel. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
  4. ↑ Holling, Mark; The Rare Breeding Birds Panel (June 2007). "Rare breeding birds in the United Kingdom in 2003 and 2004" (PDF). British Birds. 100 (6): 321–367. ISSN 0007-0335.
  5. 1 2 3 "RSPB Council". RSPB. Archived from the original on 2008-03-03. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
  6. ↑ "Medallists". BTO. 2006-06-02. Retrieved 2008-11-27.


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