Professor

David Norman
Born1949 (age 74–75)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Chartered Physicist, academic
Known forOrnithology
Websitedavidnorman.org.uk

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

Physics

Professor Norman is a former director of synchrotron radiation, Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Daresbury Laboratory.[1] He was a visiting professor in surface science at the University of Liverpool.[1]

Ornithology

Since 2005[3] he has been an independent member of the United Kingdom's Rare Breeding Birds Panel[4] and he is a member of the RSPB Council,[4] and chairman of the Merseyside Ringing Group. He is an honorary research associate of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History,[4] spending up to a month each year at their Powdermill Nature Reserve.[2]

He served on the council of English Nature from 1996 to 2002 (and in September 2000 became interim acting chairman for six months).[1][2] He has been chairman of the Cheshire Wildlife Trust[2] and a member of the Editorial Board for Ornithology's journal Ringing & Migration.[1] He was the founder chairman of the Mersey Estuary Conservation Group[1] and Research Committee of the Liverpool Bay Wader Study Group.[1]

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".[5]

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)[2]
  • 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "English Nature announce acting Chairman". English Nature. 28 September 2000. Archived from the original on 22 July 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Current Panel Members". Rare Breeding Birds Panel. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. 1 2 3 "RSPB Council". RSPB. Archived from the original on 3 March 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2008.
  5. ↑ "Medallists". BTO. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
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