Speakers and Topics

• Nicholas Cairns: Snow Lizards!
• Corey Scobie: The lucrative wild bird egg trade in early Alberta
• Kathrine Bramble: Finding Fossils with Industry

Nicholas Cairns 

Nicholas Cairns is the Curator of Non-avian Vertebrates at the Royal Alberta Museum. Nick has a deep interest in natural history and love solving biological puzzles, trying to understand how animals make a living where they do. He feeds this interest by delving into questions of ecology, behaviour and biogeography. Beyond intrinsic knowledge, he uses the information derived from these questions to inform conservation. He has a taxonomic bias towards reptiles and amphibians but have experience with taxa as varied as bees and tiger sharks. He is also a husband and father of two trying to raise little naturalists in the Northern Great Plains. 

Corey Scobie 

Corey Scobie is Assistant Curator of Ornithology at the Royal Alberta Museum, where he prepares birds, helps manages the Ornithology collection and studies owl, woodpecker and grouse ecology. Over the last two years, Corey and a great group of volunteers have organized and catalogued over 3,000 clutches of wild bird egg shells collected as far back as the 1860’s from all over the world. 

Kathrine Bramble 

Katherine Bramble is a palaeontologist at the Royal Alberta Museum and predominantly works with Industry in the recovery of Alberta’s Ice Age fossils.