Fatal collisions with glass windows claim the lives of up to 2 billion birds every year in the United States. This lunch n’ learn will review the history, biology, and politics of collisions to understand why they occur and what is being done about them. It will also describe an interdisciplinary community research initiative to study this local conservation crisis at the University of Rochester’s River Campus.

SPEAKER

Richard Fadok is a cultural anthropologist whose research combines multispecies ethnography and the anthropology of design to understand how the built environment mediates human-nonhuman relations. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities Center, where he is working on ethnographic projects about the environmental politics of architecture in the United States, including one on bird-safe design. He is also the lead scientific advisor on Smash the Crash.