Please join us for a summer invited speakers in Geography. Mark Bonta ('90) will speak about his work on Firehawks (and maybe also on his other work) at 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, Friday July 12, 2019 in 319 Walker Building.
Mark Bonta is a Geographer (BA in Geography from Penn State, PhD from Louisiana State University), currently working at the Liaoning University for International Business and Economics in Dalian, China. Previously he was an assistant professor of earth sciences at Penn State Altoona. He is engaged in research on pyric-carnivory and fire-spreading among northern Australian avifauna, ethnobotany of cycads, and domestication of maize, as well as geographies of complex spaces (based on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari). His 2017 paper “Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in Northern Australia” generated a lot of press coverage, including by the New York Times.