Lance Laviolette

Lance is one of two representatives of the Canadian Nature Federation (CNF) on BSC's National Science Advisory Council. He is a former Director of the CNF and has been a member of the organisation since 1971 when the Canadian Audubon Society expanded its mandate and became CNF. Lance has been involved with conservation and birding organisations nationally and provincially for most of his life. He has been a Director of the Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds for the past 17 years and currently chairs their Research and Property Acquisition Committees. He has also been a member of the Nova Scotia Bird Society for over 25 years and is currently the Records Editor for their quarterly publication Nova Scotia Birds. Lance studied biology and computer science at Acadia University and is employed as an Advisory Member Software Engineering with Lockheed Martin Canada. While at Acadia, he became involved with the bird banding station operated on the university's property on Brier Island, Nova Scotia and has been the banding permit holder at the Brier Island Bird Migration Research Station for almost 25 years.