Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, phenology, and climate change
Stan Temple, Aldo Leopold Foundation, University of Wisconsin
January 24, 2011 @ 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
112 Borland
Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the University of Wisconsin s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and former Chair of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program in the UW s Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. For 32 years he occupied the faculty position once held by Aldo Leopold, and while in that position he received every University of Wisconsin teaching award for which he was eligible. Since his retirement from academia in 2007 he has been a Senior Fellow of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He and his 75 graduate students have worked on conservation problems in 21 different countries, and have helped save some of the world's rarest and most visible endangered species. He has received the highest honors bestowed by The Society for Conservation Biology and The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and a Chevron Conservation Award, all recognizing his distinguished achievements in the field of conservation. He is a Fellow of The American Ornithologists' Union, The Explorer's Club, the New York Zoological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Temple's service to the conservation community at large is extensive. He has been Chairman of the Wisconsin Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and President of The Society for Conservation Biology._ He has served on editorial boards or as editor of Ecological Applications, Conservation Biology, Forest Science, Bird Conservation (which he founded), and The Passenger Pigeon. His bibliography contains over 330 publications. Professor Temple's career in conservation and ecology has been characterized by highly respected scholarship in conservation biology and wildlife ecology, by interdisciplinary approaches to solving environmental problems, and by energetic contributions to the conservation movement at scales from local to global.
Contact
Dan Grear
ecologyservice@psu.edu