Reed April McKay (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management) will defend her PhD thesis "Drivers of bat activity and habitat use in boreal forest" Friday 26 April, 2024.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
"Drivers of bat activity and habitat use in boreal forest"
Norwegian title of thesis:
"Drivere for flaggermusaktivitet og habitatbruk i boreal skog"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"Population impact assessment in a changing world: current practices, ideal concept, and the way forward."
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 26 April 2024, at 12.15 at Festsalen, Clock Building
The disputation can be attended by using the following link in Zoom: https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/64436924795
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Dr. Thomas Mikael Lilley (The Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland).
Second opponent: Professor Peter Sunde (Aarhus University, Denmark).
Committee coordinator: Professor Tone Birkemoe (MINA/NMBU).
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Professor Katrine Eldegard (MINA/NMBU).
Co-supervisor: Professor Richard Bischof (MINA/NMBU) and Professor Fiona Matthews (University of Sussex, United Kingdom).
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.