| 词条 | George McGavin |
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| honorific_prefix = Dr | name = George C. McGavin | honorific_suffix = BSc PhD FLS FRGS Hon. FSB | image = George_McGavin_Borneo_by_Tim_Martin.jpg | caption = McGavin in a hollowed-out log in Borneo | birth_name = | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = {{Unbulleted list| University of Edinburgh | Imperial College, London }} | occupation = {{Unbulleted list| Academic entomologist | Television presenter | Author }} | years_active = | employer = | agent = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | home_town = | television = | religion = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | organisation = | influences = | influenced = | spouse = | partner = }}George C. McGavin {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FLS|FRGS}} {{post-nominals|list=Hon. FSB}} is a British entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer.[1][2][3][4] BackgroundMcGavin attended Daniel Stewart's College, a private school in Edinburgh,[5] then studied Zoology at the University of Edinburgh from 1971 to 1975, followed by a PhD in entomology at Imperial College, London.[4] He went on to teach and research at the University of Oxford.[6] He is Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University Museum of Natural History[1][2] and the Department of Zoology of Oxford University, where he lists his interests as "Terrestrial arthropods especially in tropical forests, caves and savannah. Public understanding of science. Exploration."[7] He is also a visiting professor of entomology at the University of Derby.[4] McGavin is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, and has several insect species named in his honour.[1][8][9] He was previously Assistant Curator of Entomology at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History.[10][11] McGavin has lectured at the Cheltenham Science Festival,[11] given the Royal Geographical Society children's Christmas lecture and contributes to their Schools Programme. He won Earthwatch's "Irreplaceable – The World's Most Invaluable Species" debate, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, in 2008[12] and he is a lecturer on board Cunard ships.[13] He is a patron of the charity Wildscreen,[14] of the Bees, Wasp and Ants Recording Scheme and of the Alderney Records Centre;[15] and is a Global Ambassador for Earthwatch and given the prize-giving speech at Stewart's Melville College He enjoys eating insects, which he describes as "flying prawns".[8] TelevisionMcGavin was a presenter for the BBC and Discovery Channel US series Expedition Borneo (2007), and was co-presenter of the BBC series Expedition, for which he has conducted three expeditions: Lost Land of the Jaguar (2008), Lost Land of the Volcano (2009), and Lost Land of the Tiger, in Bhutan (2010).[3][10][16] He is also a regular contributor to The One Show (BBC1) and has appeared on the Richard & Judy show to cook and eat insects.[17] He was Series Consultant and a contributor on Infested (Granada/ITV, 2002)[17] and was the Chief Scientific Consultant for the David Attenborough series Life in the Undergrowth.[3] His other TV appearances include What's up Doc? (STV), Tomorrow's World (BBC), Package Holiday Undercover (ITV), Facing the Music (BBC), Take One Museum (Channel 4) and various national and local news programmes. His programme Afterlife: The Science of Decay was screened by the BBC on 6 December, 2011.[18][19] From July 2011, another BBC programme, The Dark, about the nocturnal activities of animals, was produced.[20] This started transmission on BBC2 on 29 July 2012 and on BBC HD a day later. In October 2012, he appeared, with co-presenter Dr Alice Roberts in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy.[21] In 2014, he presented Monkey Planet and a two-part series on BBC Four: Dissected: The Incredible Human Hand and Dissected: The Incredible Human Foot.[22] In October 2017, McGavin presented a one-off BBC documentary "Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor".[23] In 2018 McGavin and Zoe Laughlin made a BBC Four documentary "The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History", exploring the fate and future of rubbish deposited in landfill sites.[24][25] Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/entom1.htm |title=Entomology: Staff |publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History |accessdate=22 July 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809140541/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/entom1.htm |archivedate=9 August 2011 |df=dmy }} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/expeditions/newguineasforestsecrets|title=Revealing New Guinea's forest secrets|work=BBC Online|accessdate=22 July 2011}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/whatson/event/?eventno=6632|title=Public Lecture – 'To the Ends of the Earth' with Dr. George McGavin|publisher=Durham University|accessdate=23 July 2011}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/expeditions/exped_experience/exped_blogs/blog_mcgavin/|title=Q&A with Dr George McGavin|publisher=EarthWatch|accessdate=22 July 2011}} 5. ^{{cite web|date=13 August 2015|title=Biological Sciences – Alumni – George McGavin|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/alumni/george-mcgavin|publisher=The University of Edinburgh}} 6. ^University of Edinburgh biography. 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/staff/academics/mcgavin_g.htm|title=Staff: Academic|publisher=Department of Zoology, University of Oxford|accessdate=13 July 2011}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2008/04/01/bugman_feature.shtml|title=Bug man|publisher=BBC |accessdate=25 July 2011}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/food/profiles/4079371.Dr_George_McGavin/|title=The insect champion|last=Vetta|first=Sylvia|date=27 January 2009|work=Oxford Times|accessdate=25 July 2011}} 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://groupspaces.com/ouec/item/1992|title=Dr George McGavin – Expedition Borneo|publisher=Oxford University Exploration Club|accessdate=13 July 2011}} 11. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/support/2006-07.pdf |title=Oxford University Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2006–2007 |publisher=Oxford University Museum of Natural History |accessdate=22 July 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809133907/http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/support/2006-07.pdf |archivedate=9 August 2011 |df=dmy }} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/newsroom/science/news-3-result1.html|title=Bees declared the winners in Earthwatch's own Strictly Come Species battle|date=21 November 2008|accessdate=25 July 2011}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://wearecunard.com/2010/03/50-days-around-the-world-on-queen-mary-2/|title=50 DAYS AROUND THE WORLD ON QUEEN MARY 2|last=Shanks|first=Peter|date=2 March 2010|publisher=Cunard|accessdate=25 July 2011}} 14. ^{{cite book|title=WildScreen Annual Review 2010|url=http://www.wildscreen.org.uk/downloads/AnnualReview2010.pdf|accessdate=11 July 2011|publisher=Wildscreen}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.alderneywildlife.org/pages/about.php?pg=whoswho|title=Who|publisher=Alderney Wildlife Trust|accessdate=16 July 2011|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007113401/http://www.alderneywildlife.org/pages/about.php?pg=whoswho|archivedate=7 October 2011|df=dmy-all}} 16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/09_september/20/tiger.shtml |title=BBC team discovers "lost" tigers |publisher=BBC Press Office |date=20 September 2010}} 17. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001727 |title=Dr George McGavin |publisher=Royal Institution |accessdate=25 July 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211042906/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000001727 |archivedate=11 February 2012 |df=dmy }} 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/03_march/30/afterlife.shtml|title=Afterlife|date=30 March 2011|work=BBC Online Press Office|accessdate=16 July 2011}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012w66t|title=Afterlife: The Science of Decay|work=BBC Online|accessdate=8 May 2012}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/07_july/08/natural_history.shtml|title=BBC unveils new natural history commissions|date=8 July 2011|work=BBC Online press office|accessdate=16 July 2011}} 21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xfdmt|title=Prehistoric Autopsy|work=BBC Online|accessdate=23 October 2012}} 22. ^Radio Times 22–28 February 2014 23. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fq03t |title=Oak Tree: Nature's Greatest Survivor}} 24. ^{{cite news |last1=Walton |first1=James |title=I had no idea how fascinating rubbish could be: The Secret Life of Landfill reviewed |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/i-had-no-idea-how-fascinating-rubbish-could-be-the-secret-life-of-landfill-reviewed/ |accessdate=7 September 2018 |work=The Spectator |date=25 August 2018}} 25. ^{{cite web |title=The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgpc2f |publisher=BBC Four |accessdate=7 September 2018}} External links
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