Dr. Jane Lubchenco

Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology
Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

Dr. Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge. She graduated from Colorado College, received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in marine ecology, taught at Harvard for two years, and has been on the faculty at Oregon State University since 1978.

Dr. Lubchenco is a marine biologist. Her full expertise includes interactions between humans and the environment: biodiversity, climate change, sustainability science, ecosystem services, marine reserves, coastal marine ecosystems, the state of the oceans and of the planet.

Dr. Lubchenco has received numerous awards including a MacArthur ("genius") Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, eight honorary degrees (including one from Princeton University), the 2002 Heinz Award in the Environment, the 2003 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, the 2004 Environmental Law Institute Award (the first scientist to receive this honor) and the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science's Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
 

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Dr. Michael Soulé

Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

 Dr. Soulé was born, raised, and educated in California. After spending much of his youth in the canyons, deserts, and intertidal of San Diego and Baja California, and after graduating from San Diego State, he went to Stanford to study population biology and evolution under Paul Ehrlich. Dr. Soulé was a founder of the Society for Conservation Biology and The Wildlands Project and has been the president of both. He has written and edited 9 books on biology, conservation biology, and the social and policy context of conservation. He has published more than 170 articles on population and evolutionary biology, fluctuating asymmetry, population genetics, island biogeography, environmental studies, biodiversity policy, nature conservation, and ethics.

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Regularly Updated Announcement:

The 2009

Edward O. Wilson

Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Awards

To be presented by Dr. Wilson on April 9, 2009 in Bozeman, Montana

Dr. Edward O. Wilson

Dr. Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

     The American Computer Museum proudly announces the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Awards which will be presented by Dr. Wilson in person to honorees who have pioneered, invented, developed or used modern technology to help advance the biodiversity of life on planet Earth.

     There will be a free public forum at 1:30 P.M. on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at the Montana State University Brick Breeden Fieldhouse (no tickets required to attend) with Dr. Wilson, the honorees and special guests . That evening the awards dinner will be held at the Montana State University Strand Union Building. Tickets for the dinner will be sold through this web page starting in the fall of 2008.

The awards ceremonies are sponsored in part by

Montana State University's

 College of Letters & Science

 College of Engineering

Humanities Institute

Additional sponsorships are available for individuals and organizations from both the public and private sectors. For information on becoming a sponsor please email us at: director@compustory.com

More details, including additional honoree listings will be posted on this page as they become available.

Last updated on August 11, 2008

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Dr. Steve Running

Professor & Director, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), College of Forestry & Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Dr. Running's primary research interest is the development of global and regional ecosystem biogeochemical models by integration of remote sensing with climatology and terrestrial ecology. He is a Team Member for the NASA Earth Observing System, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and is responsible for the EOS global terrestrial net primary production and evaporative index datasets. He has published over 240 scientific articles. He has recently served on the standing Committee for Earth Studies of the National Research Council, and on the Federal Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Committee. He is a Co-Chair of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model Land Working Group, a Member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Executive Committee, and the World Climate Research Program, Global Terrestrial Observing System. Dr. Running, as a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Prof. Running is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and is designated a Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information.
 

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Dr. David Ward

Professor
Microbial Ecology

Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
 

Dr. Ward is involved in instruction and research in microbial diversity, ecology and evolution as well as fundamental studies of microbial population biology and community ecology in relation to principles of macroecology; molecular analysis of composition, structure and function of hot spring microbial mat communities used as natural models; comparative molecular and organic geochemical studies of microbial mats as analogs of Precambrian stromatolite fossils; bioremediation ecology; microbiology education/outreach.

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