John Eadie, associate professor of zoology at the University of Toronto, has accepted the new Dennis G. Raveling Waterfowl Professorship at the University of California, Davis. Located in the nationally top-ranked Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, the endowed professorship was created in memory of the late Professor Raveling, an internationally known waterfowl expert from the department. California waterfowl supporters established the endowment in partnership with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis and the Sacramento-based California Waterfowl Association to ensure a permanent source of funding for waterfowl-related research, teaching and outreach activities. The endowment supports research that will benefit waterfowl populations on California's agricultural lands, strengthening the growing partnership between agricultural concerns and conservationists. Research generated by the endowed professorship also will be directly applied to the problem of crucial wetlands loss in California's Central Valley, and play a significant part in the framework of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Eadie, who joins the department in July, brings research, teaching and outreach experience to the position, as well as various honors and awards. His research interests include evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology, and the reproductive tactics, demography, social behavior and population genetics of birds and insects. In 1982, he earned a master's degree in biology from Queen's University in Canada, followed in 1989 by a zoology doctorate from the University of British Columbia. Honors include the T.W.M. Cameron Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Canadian Society of Zoologists, and sizable research grant awards from associations such as the National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History.