. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 3: Working with Birds 43. The Snow Goose has been a subject of fascination to many CWS researchers since 1947. Here, Dick Kerbes and Jean Venet round up a group to be banded, on Bylot Island, NWT, in the late 1960s (Photo credit: D. Muir). that, with a glance at the composition, abundance, and behaviour of flocks of birds at sea, he could often predict changes in oceanographic fronts faster than the ships' monitoring instruments could deliver their reports. Perhaps the most important published works among many to come out of this remarkabl
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Chapter 3: Working with Birds 43. The Snow Goose has been a subject of fascination to many CWS researchers since 1947. Here, Dick Kerbes and Jean Venet round up a group to be banded, on Bylot Island, NWT, in the late 1960s (Photo credit: D. Muir). that, with a glance at the composition, abundance, and behaviour of flocks of birds at sea, he could often predict changes in oceanographic fronts faster than the ships' monitoring instruments could deliver their reports. Perhaps the most important published works among many to come out of this remarkable research effort were the Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds (1975)^' and the Revised Atlas of Eastern Canadian Seabirds (1986).^- Other projects included investigations into the ecology of pelagic species such as fulmars, shearwaters, and phalaropes, as well as work on tracking oil spills and assessing their effects on seabirds.^^ In addition. Brown contributed occasional, witty columns to the New York Times and appeared regularly in Nature Canada. He also wrote an intriguingly imaginative work documenting the encounter of the Titanic and the iceberg, much of it from the iceberg's point of view. The book is an outstanding contribution to popular understanding of northern marine ecology.''"* A third member of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography-based seabird team from the 1970s onward was Anthony R. (Tony) Lock, who had been studying the energetics of zooplankton until Dick Brown convinced him to look at seabirds. As a result, he did his doctoral research on gulls on Sable Island. Lock's full-time employment with CWS began in 1975 as a duck surveys biologist, although he had performed the North Shore seabird survey in 1972. Later, in 1978, he commenced a five-year stint conducting aerial surveys of seabird colonies along the Labrador coast: That was probably one of the last times and places where you could do new exploration anywhere in Canada. You'd just hop in the flo
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