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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