DONATIONS
All events in throughout the RMS Lecture Series are free to the McGill community
HOWEVER, we encourage you to donate through this link. 
A portion of the proceeds will go to help us cover costs, but half of the proceeds made will be donated to a charity of your choosing. 
Once the lecture series is over, we will hold a poll on Instagram that will allow you, the RMS community, to choose which one to donate to. 

Ingrid Birker
BIO
Ingrid Birker worked at the Redpath Museum of Natural History in McGill University for over 40 years and continues sharing her love of nature as an accredited Forest and Nature School Practitioner and Riversong Forest School. She works closely as a volunteer with many organizations including the Redpath Museum, the McGill Urban Agriculture group and the Ressources Ethnoculturelles Contre l’Abus envers les Aîné(e)s, Respecting Elders Communities against Abuse (RECAA).
Her experience as an outdoor guide started with the publication of a booklet (2002) called “What building stones tell - A walking tour of the fossils in Montreal’s downtown core”. In 2009 she helped publish the booklet about McGill’s trees that is called “Leafy Legacy”. Since her retirement in 2022 she has published numerous downloadable free GIS Story Maps about the biodiversity, fossils, minerals, trees and edible plants at McGill and on Mont Royal.
Ingrid is a long-time member of the NDG Collective Gardens, the Diggers and Weeders garden club of Montreal, the Westmount Horticultural Society, UrbaNature Montreal and a member of the Council of the James McGill Society at McGill University. She is also on the Council of the choral group called Mouth Music/ Musique a bouche. When not in the forest she spends time with her family, cycles, skis, knits and volunteers with Resilience Montreal.

TALK DESCRIPTION
Renovations at the Redpath Museum - the story of gallery changes from 1882 - 2020. subtitle stuff: As the Redpath Museum prepares for major structural building renovations we look back at how the Museum was first designed and examine a variety of changes and what influenced them.

Louis-Philippe Bateman 
BIO
Louis-Philippe Bateman is an Honours undergraduate student in the Larsson Lab at McGill University. His research focuses on describing understudied eastern Canadian fossils and understanding the biomechanics of extinct vertebrates using Blender.






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​Andre Mueller
BIO
Howdy there! My name is Andre Mueller and I'm a fourth year Biology Student specializing in Paleontological research and fossil preparation in the Redpath Museum! I'm really passionate about plants, paleontology and public outreach! I hope to start my M.S. in Biology next year researching ancient climate change during the cretaceous. In my talk I will be discussing the who and how of paleontology, exploring the process of collection, transportation and preparation of fossils for further research, and how the Redpath Museum makes it all 'fossil-ble'!
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Talk Description
Discover the who, what, how and why of paleontology! Follow Andre and Louis-Philippe through the history of life on Earth, seen through the lens of paleontological research at the Redpath museum.


Lauren Williams 
BIO
Lauren Williams is the curator of the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection in the Rare Books & Special Collections department of McGill Library.

TALK DESCRIPTION
From 13th century Persian zoological manuscripts to Joseph Banks’ field notes from his 1766 voyage to Newfoundland, McGill Library’s Blacker Wood Natural History Collection is home to thousands of remarkable treasures. These rare books provide an invaluable account of the natural world as it has existed over the course of centuries, and document humanity’s dynamic relationship to the environment that surrounds us. Resources like these have traditionally supported research in the humanities, but growing concerns about drastic environmental changes have begun to encourage a new group of scholars to turn to past for answers: modern scientists. Join Lauren Williams to discover how historical library collections at McGill are being used to contribute to contemporary scientific research.