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Areas of Specialization

1) Structure and function of natural forest ecosystems, especially old-growth forests;

2) Successional processes and ecosystem recovery following catastrophic disturbances;

3) Effects of changing environmental conditions, such as global change, on forest processes;

4) Application of ecological principles to management of natural resources ("New Forestry,” ecosystem management); and

5) Theory and practice of landscape ecology.  Participant in many major scientific and policy analyses of forestry issues at local, national, and global level (see below).

 

Degrees

1959  B.S. Forest management, Oregon State University

1961  M.S. Forest management and statistics, Oregon State University

1966 Ph.D. Botany and soils, Washington State University

2001 LLD.  Simon Fraser University

 

Professional Societies

Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ecological Society of America,  American Institute of Biological Sciences, British Ecological Society, Society of Conservation Biology, and International Association of Landscape Ecologists.

 

 

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Major Professional Positions

1986 to present

Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of  Forest Resources, University of  Washington, Seattle, WA

1993 to present

Director, Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility

2004 to present

Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant ($6 million/2 years) to plan National Ecological Observatory Network

1975 to 1991

Chief Plant Ecologist, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR

1975 to 1992

Professor, Departments of Botany and Plant Pathology and of Forest Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

1973 to 1975

Director, Ecosystem Studies Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

1959 to 1975

Research Forester, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station,  Corvallis, OR

Other Professional Responsibilities

2007 to present

Advisory Council, The Conservation Fund

1993 to 1996

Appointee, Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (congressional commission)

1993 to 1995

Appointee, Scientific Panel for Sustainable Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound (British Columbia provincial commission)

1993 to 1994

President, Ecological Society of America

1993

Participant, White House Forest Conference

1993     

Appointee, Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (presidential commission)

1992 to 1995

Organizer and Chair, International Long-Term Ecological Research Program

1991 to 1993

Appointee, Indian Forest Management Assessment Team (congressional commission)

1991 to 1996

Board of Directors, Ecotrust Inc.

1991 to present

The Wilderness Society Governing Board

1991

Appointee, Scientific Panel for Late Successional Forest Ecosystem (“Gang of Four”) (congressional commission)

1989

Appointee, Commission on Old Growth Alternatives for Washington's Forest Trust Lands (state commission)

1986 to 1991

Scientific Advisory Board, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

1982 to 1995

Chair and Network Director, Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program

1978 to 1988

Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy

1975 to 1986

Director, H. J. Andrews Ecosystem Research Project

1969 to 1973

Deputy Director, Coniferous Forest Biome Project, International Biological Program

Major Honors and Awards

2006

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario

2005

Heinz Foundation, Award for the Environment

2004

LaRoe Award for lifetime scientific contributions to conservation biology, Society for Conservation Biology

2001

Leadership in Action Award, US Chapter of International Association for Landscape Ecology

2001

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia

1996

William B. Greeley Award, American Forests Association

1995

Philip C. Hamm Award, Monsanto Agricultural Co. and     College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota

1992

The George Melendez Wright Award for Excellence, George Wright Society

1992

Howard Vollum Award, Science and Technology, Reed College, Portland, OR

1992

Conservationist of the Year, Pacific Rivers Council, Portland, OR

1988

Olaus & Mardy Murie Award for meritorious government service, The Wilderness Society

1986

Charles Bullard Fellow for Forest Research, Harvard University

1986

Barrington Moore Award for outstanding achievement in forest research, Society of American Foresters

1986

Superior Service Award, U.S. Department of Agriculture

1972     

Arthur S. Flemming Award, outstanding young person in the Federal government

1971

Distinguished Scientist Award, Northwest Scientific Association

1970

Superior Service Award, U.S. Department of Agriculture