We are altering the Earth at an unprecedented rate. In changing our planet, we are participating in the existing natural omnipresence of change. This global dynamism makes obsolete several traditional concepts in conservation science, such as the "Wilderness Concept" or the "Balance of Nature." In this presentation, animal parables with Kiplingisque titles, such as "How the Earthquake Bird got its Name" or the "The Wolf that was Woman's Best Friend", illustrate important ecological concepts for the stewardship of a changing planet. Historical accounts about different animals to provide a scientific basis for understanding the dynamic responses of landscapes in a world of natural- and human-generated change. The stories in this presentation are from the speaker's recent book published by Yale University Press.

October 8, 2004
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Roanoke Higher Education Center
108 North Jefferson Street
Roanoke, VA
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About the Speaker

Herman H. ("Hank") Shugart, Jr. is the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences and the Director of the Global Environmental Change Program at the University of Virginia.

He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Georgia in 1971, and worked for the next 13 years in Tennessee 3/4 eventually as a Senior Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as a Professor in Botany and the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Tennessee. In 1984, he moved to his current position at University of Virginia.

Dr. Shugart has also served as a Visiting Fellow in the Australian National University (1978-1979, 1993-1994), in Australia’s Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organization, Division of Land Use Research (1982) and Division of Wildlife and Ecology (1993-1994), in the International Meteorological Institute at the University of Stockholm, Sweden (1984), and in the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria (1987,1989). He has served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals including Ecology and Ecological Monographs, Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics, Biological Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Forest Science, Global Change Biology and The Australian Journal of Botany.