Steve Ormerod
Stephen J. Ormerod is a professor of ecology and former Chair of the Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Ormerod grew up in Burnley, East Lancashire, England.[2]
He was educated at Burnley Grammar School, Huddersfield University[2] and subsequently at Cardiff University, where he obtained a PhD in river ecology in 1985.[3] He is father to four children,[2] with three stepsons and one biological son.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Ormerod was appointed Professor of Ecology in the Cardiff School of Biosciences at Cardiff University in 2001, and chair of the RSPB Council at their AGM in 2012.[2][5]
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity.[1] Ormerod was previously chair of the RSPB's Advisory Committee for Wales and is a former president of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.[5] and has been a member of the councils of the Freshwater Biological Association, the Countryside Council for Wales, the Rivers' Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology.[5]
He was chief editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology.[5] He sat on the scientific advisory committee of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and was on the expert panel of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)'s National Ecosystem Assessment and was a member of other DEFRA committees.[5] In 1987 he was a fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust when he looked at the problems associated with acid rain. This has been a continuing interest in his research which has been supported by the European Union and the Natural Environment Research Council.[6]
In 2011 he received the Zoological Society of London's Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation. He was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW) and a Fellow of the Society of Biology (FSB), in 2013.[6] In his academic career Ormerod has published more than 200 scientific papers.[2]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Cardiff University staff page
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- An Ecologist's Career Video (on YouTube) of a talk by Ormerod, at the British Ecological Society's Careers Conference in 2013
- Dippers – 2012 episode of BBC Radio 4 programme The Living World, featuring Ormerod
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- Living people
- British Trust for Ornithology people
- English ecologists
- English ornithologists
- People educated at Burnley Grammar School
- People from Burnley
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds people
- Alumni of the University of Huddersfield
- Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- Academics of Cardiff University
- Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales