SCB-A Newsletter September 2006

Abstract

The new Editor of Pacific Conservation Biology, Ian McLean, brings a wealth of Pacific experience to his new job. Ian is originally from central North Island, New Zealand. His earliest research experiences as an undergraduate and MSc student were with endangered bird species on the conservation islands near Auckland. Ian then spent some years in Canada, where he worked on ground squirrels in the Yukon and in Alberta. After several years teaching at the University of British Columbia (plus more bird research) he returned to an academic position at the University of Canterbury, which he held for 10 years. During that period he ran a peripatetic research programme encompassing behavioural, ecological and conservatron issues in forest birds, penguins and marine mammals.