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BIODIVERSITY AND THE EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF BEAUTY
2006 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Lecture
Thursday, April 27, 2006
American Museum of Natural History (81st Street/Planetarium Entrance)
New York City
Gordon Orians (Keynote Address)
Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle
CONSERVING BIRDS IN HUMAN-DOMINATED LANDSCAPES
SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS and MODERATORS
(alphabetical order by presenter)
John Alexander (Moderator)
Advisory Council, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
George Amato (Moderator)
Director, Conservation Genetics, American Museum of Natural History
Felicity Arengo (Moderator)
Associate Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Dan Ashe (Moderator)
Science Advisor to the Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Andrew Balmford
Senior Lecturer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
Reed Bowman
Associate Research Biologist, Head, Avian Ecology Lab, Archbold Biological Station, Florida
Joanna Burger
Professor, Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
Peter Daszak
Executive Director, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, New York City
Janis L. Dickinson
Arthur A. Allen Director of Citizen Science and Associate Professor of Natural Resources, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Christopher E. Filardi (Moderator)
Biodiversity Scientist for Pacific Programs, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History
Aldina M. A. Franco
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of York, UK
Ellen V. Futter
President, American Museum of Natural History
Andrew J. Hansen
Director, Ecology Department, Montana State University
Rex R. Johnson
Assessment Biologist, Division of Bird Habitat Conservation, US Fish and Wildlife Service (Minnesota)
Madhusudan Katti
Biology Department, California State University, Fresno
Thomas Lovejoy
President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
Miguel Ângelo Marini
Department of Zoology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
John M. Marzluff
Denman Professor of Sustainable Resource Sciences and Professor of Wildlife Science, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle
Michael J. Novacek
Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, American Museum of Natural History
Gordon H. Orians
Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle
Julia K. Parrish
Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, College of Ocean and Fisheries Science, University of Washington
Ana Luz Porzecanski (Moderator)
Biodiversity Scientist/Project Coordinator, Latin America Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History
Tess Present
Director of Science and Bird Conservation Programs, National Audubon Society
Michael L. Rosenzweig
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson
Paul R. Schmidt
Assistant Director, Migratory Birds,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC
Navjot S. Sodhi
National University of Singapore
Eleanor Sterling (Moderator)
Director, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
Will Turner
Research Scientist, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International
Juliet Vickery
Head of the Terrestrial Ecology Unit of the British Trust for Ornithology
Paige West
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University
John A. Wiens (Moderator)
Lead Scientist, Mid-Americas Conservation Region, The Nature Conservancy
Steve Zack
Pacific West Coordinator, Portland Office, North America Program, Wildlife Conservation Society
Karl Zimmerer
Department Chair, Professor of Geography, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin |