Third Event:
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Lecture Series in Western Landscapes Conservation Third Event: |
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Monday, April 7
Gardner Auditorium W.A. Franke Business College 5:30 - 7:00 pm with Barry Noon:
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Barry Noon
focuses on conservation planning for threatened and endangered species, science-based management of public lands to conserve biological diversity, and conducting viability analyses for at-risk species. His work combines theoretical and empirical approaches to better understand the factors that put species at risk of extinction. Insights from his research have led him to appreciate the important role science has to play in informing the development of land-use policy for private and public lands. His work has been motivated by a belief that sustaining biological diversity is essential to human welfare both in terms of critical goods and services provided by healthy ecosystems and as a source of emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic inspiration. Dr. Noon's activities also include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Ecological literacy is essential to evaluate the environmental consequences of personal decisions as well as those made by local and federal governments. Dr. Noon also is engaged in outreach through contributions to professional scientific societies, consultations with non-government organizations, as well as working with his local community in assessing the environmental impacts of continuing development. Barry Noon was actively involved in the USFS Committee of Scientists, whose recommendations for science-based management were essentially abandoned by the Bush administration. You may read the USFS Committee of Scientist's report here. Professional Affiliations: American Ornithologist's Union Elected Fellow Ecological Society of America Applied Ecology Section Statistical Ecology Section Society for Conservation Biology Formerly Board of Governors Assigning editor for the journal Conservation Biology The Wildlife Society Formerly Associate Editor for the Journal of Wildlife Management Biometrics workgroup International Association of Landscape Ecologists Recent Honors and Awards: Senior Fulbright Scholar to India--2003-2004 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow--2004-2005 |
