Come to CSC 204 on April 1st at 11 AM for a virtual meeting with Dr. Daniel Klem Jr! (Refreshments will be served!)
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to hear this well-accomplished Wilkes Alumni speak!
Daniel Klem, Jr., Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Klem obtained his B.Sc. at Wilkes University and his M.Sc. at Hofstra University. He served in the US military during the Vietnam War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He subsequently obtained his doctorate from Southern Illinois University.
Over the past 44 years, he has dedicated his life to studying, writing, and teaching about the threat that windows, sheet glass, and plastic pose to birds. No other scientist has comprehensively studied and published research results documenting and preventing these lethal threats.
His research has influenced the design of buildings, not least the Niagara Falls State Park Observation Tower, on which he was a design consultant. He holds several US patents relating to windows design. He is motivated by available and growing evidence that bird-building collisions are an important wildlife conservation, building industry, and animal welfare issue for birds and people worldwide.