John Croxall
British biologist and ornithologist
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John Patrick Croxall CBE FRS (born 19 January 1946 in Birmingham) is a British biologist,[1] and was Head of Conservation Biology at the British Antarctic Survey.[2] He is Chair of Global Seabird Programme, of BirdLife International.[3]
Life
Croxall completed a PhD at the University of Auckland in 1971, on ascidian ecology, supervised by John Morton.[4] He was senior research associate in zoology, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1972 to 1975. He won a Scientific Medal in 1984, from the Zoological Society of London.[5] He received a President’s Medal from the British Ecological Society.[6]
