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SUMMARY:Be safe but starve\, or eat but be eaten: how small decisions abou
 t risk have big consequences - Will Cresswell\, University of St Andrews
DTSTART:20080124T180000Z
DTEND:20080124T200000Z
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CONTACT:Emma Smith
DESCRIPTION:The Arrol Adam Lectures were launched this academic year compr
 ising of a series of six lectures on different aspects of “Risk”\, org
 anised by College President\, Dr Michael Potter. The free lectures are aim
 ed at a general audience and are open to the public as well as College mem
 bers.\n\nThe fourth lecture will take place on Thursday 24th January at 6 
 pm in the College auditorium and is entitled\, “Be safe but starve\, or 
 eat but be eaten: how small decisions about risk have big consequences”\
 n\nThe speaker is Will Cresswell\, Reader at the School of Biology\, Unive
 rsity of St Andrews.\n\nWill Cresswell is a Reader at the School of Biolog
 y\, St Andrews University and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. 
 He has published 76 international research papers since his PhD in 1993\, 
 at Edinburgh University\, on how animals manage the risk of predation\, an
 d the consequences of management of risk for the behaviour of both predato
 rs and prey\, their fitness\, population dynamics and larger scale communi
 ty effects. He was a NERC Research Fellow at Glasgow University investigat
 ing whether individual animals are always good competitors (“nature”) 
 or whether it depends on specific conditions or experience (“nurture”)
 . He was appointed Lecturer in Ornithology at the Edward Grey Institute\, 
 University of Oxford\, in 1998 and was awarded an eight year Royal Society
  University Research Fellowship in 2000 to study how individual birds vary
  in their risk of predation and how birds of prey select their prey. He mo
 ved to St Andrews University in 2003 where he also lectures in ecology and
  carries out other more conservation-based research.
LOCATION:Fitzwilliam College Auditorium
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