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Hank Shugart

The W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences,
Director of the Global Environmental Change Program at the University of Virginia

How the Earthquake Bird Got its Name and Other Tales of an Unbalanced Nature
October 8, 2004
Roanoke, VA


On the web

The University of Virginia serves over one million people every year through more than 400 public service and outreach programs. For more information about outreach at UVa, visit http://www.virginia.edu/outreachvirginia/, an interactive web-based listing of public service programs searchable by region, interest, audience, or type of program.
Some programs you can find in OutreachVirginia database include the following:

Arbor Fest
Arbor Fest is a free open house and fall plant sale that showcases programs at Blandy Experimental Farm, a research field station for UVa's Dept. of Environmental Sciences, and the State Arboretum of Virginia.

Garden Fair
Blandy Farm's garden fair is a huge annual plant and garden supply sale offering activities for the whole family.

Natural History Programs for Children & Youth
The Charlottesville branch of the Virginia Museum of Natural History offers regularly scheduled programs for children ages 3 through middle school during the school year and the summer.
ce. All Institute programs are bipartisan.

Summer Nature Camps at Blandy Farm
Blandy Farm offers summer nature camps in the mornings and afternoons for children ages 5-13. This summer's camp offerings include Critters That Crawl, Beautiful Butterfiles, and Eco-Explorers.

 

On the shelf

Shugart, H.H. 1984. A Theory of Forest Dynamics: The Ecological Implications of Forest Succession Models. Springer-Verlag, New York. 278 pp.

Shugart, H.H. 1987. Le Dinamiche Degli Ecosistemi: Illustrazione Della Teoria Della Dinamiche Forestali Tarmite L'Uso Modelli Di Simulazione. Pubblicazioni del Corso di Cultura in Ecologia. Atti del XXIII Corso. Istituto di Selvicoltura, Unversitá delgi Studi di Padova. Padua, Italy. 143 pp. [Condensation in Italian of: Shugart, H.H. 1984. A Theory of Forest Dynamics: The Ecological Implications of Forest Succession Models. Springer-Verlag, New York. 278 pp.].

Shugart, H.H. 1992. A Theory of Forest Dynamics: The Ecological Implications of Forest Succession Models. Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing Company, Guizhou. 353 pp. [Translation by Chengbiao Li, Qinzhou Yang, Bocai Zhou and Xiaoping Liu in Chinese of: A Theory of Forest Dynamics: The Ecological Implications of Forest Succession Models. Springer-Verlag, New York. 278 pp.].

Shao, G., S. Zhao and H.H. Shugart. 1996. Forest Dynamics Modeling — Preliminary Explanations of Optimizing Management of Korean Pine Forests [in Chinese]. Chinese Forestry Publishing House, Beijing. 159 pp.

Shugart, H.H. 1998. Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 537 pp.


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.

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