Skip to main content Skip to main navigation Skip to page-level navigation Go to the Disability Resource Centre Website Go to the DRC Booking Accommodation Portal Go to the Inclusive Technology Lab Website
The University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
UBC Okanagan News
  • Research
  • People
    • Student Profile
    • Faculty Profile
    • Alumni Spotlight
  • Campus Life
    • Campus News
    • Student Life
    • Teaching & Learning
  • Community Engagement
  • About the Collection
    • Stories for Media
  • UBCO Events
  • Search All Stories
Home / 2007 / November / 05 / Nature Nut John Acorn to talk dinosaurs and birds Nov. 27

Nature Nut John Acorn to talk dinosaurs and birds Nov. 27

November 5, 2007

Naturalist, author and broadcaster John Acorn, affectionately known to fans as The Nature Nut, will speak in Kelowna on Nov. 27 about two of his favourite topics: birds and dinosaurs.

More precisely, he’ll look at how dinosaurs and birds are connected. As the next presenter in UBC Okanagan’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Acorn will explore the recent discovery of feathered dinosaurs, and other connections between the first birds and early two-legged meat eating theropods (“beast-footed”) dinosaurs.

“The notion that birds are dinosaurs has gained widespread scientific acceptance,” he says. “But what does this mean, really?”

An instructor of wildlife biodiversity and ecology at the University of Alberta, Acorn is also host of the Discovery Channel’s popular program Acorn, the Nature Nut. He also hosted the TV series Twits and Pishers, examining bird life and the study of birds. He is a research associate at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and the E. H. Strickland Entomology Museum, and has served as president of the Entomological Society of Alberta.

Acorn’s work has been honoured in many ways, including the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Award Foundation Prize for Excellence in Science and Technology Journalism and two “Rosies” from the Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association.

Acorn’s free public lecture in Kelowna is at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27, in the Rotary Centre for the Arts’ Mary Irwin Theatre, 421 Cawston Ave.

Tickets to the Distinguished Speaker Series presentation are free but they must be picked up or ordered in advance from the Rotary Centre for the Arts box office (call 250-717-5304). Box office hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.

For more information about the Distinguished Speaker Series, visit:
http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/speakers

Acorn Presents Fall Lecture in Vernon

John Acorn will also speak in Vernon the following evening, 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 28, as part of a fall lecture series co-sponsored by the Vernon Museum and Archives and UBC Okanagan.

His presentation, entitled The Paleo Perspective, looks at how the perspective of paleontology is important in a variety of contexts, ranging from climate change debates to how we manage parks and protected areas, biodiversity preservation and the current extinction crisis. Admission is $10 at the door for this lecture at Okanagan College’s Kalamalka Campus lecture theatre, 7000 College Way, Vernon.

— 30 —

Media Contact

universityrelations
E-mail: universityrelations@newsbuild.ok.ubc.ca

Content type: Media Release
More content from: Uncategorized

Trending Stories

  • How one student connects AI innovation to wildfire research
  • Robotics, AI advancing wildfire, agricultural research at UBCO
  • Psychedelic mushroom microdoses can improve mood, mental health
  • UBCO professor researches electric passenger light rail for Okanagan Valley
  • Putting community, students and research on the same track
All Stories
Contact Media Relations

About UBC Okanagan

UBC’s Okanagan campus is an innovative hub for research and learning founded in partnership with local Indigenous peoples, the Syilx Okanagan Nation, in whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory the campus resides. The most established and influential global rankings all consistently place UBC in the top five per cent of universities in the world, and among the top three Canadian universities.

The Okanagan campus combines a globally recognized UBC education with a tight-knit and entrepreneurial community that welcomes students and faculty from around the world in British Columbia’s stunning Okanagan Valley. For more visit ok.ubc.ca.

Discover more about UBC Okanagan

Find a Program Admissions Book a Tour UBCO Facts
UBC Okanagan Campus News, University Relations

Innovation Precinct Annexation 1 (IA1)
3505 Spectrum Court
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 2Z1

We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.

 

Search all stories

Subscribe to receive news by email

Visit UBC's Vancouver news room

Global and Admin Messages

News

Okanagan Campus

TikTok icon Linkedin icon

UBC Okanagan News
Okanagan Campus
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC Canada V1V 1V7
Find us on
  
Back to top
The University of British Columbia
  • Emergency Procedures |
  • Terms of Use |
  • Copyright |
  • Accessibility