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Land
Trusts, Field Stations, and the Future
of Land Stewardship in the West
Winter/Spring
Lecture Series
January 29, 2003
Remote Landscapes and High
Biodiversity:
Field Station Management in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.
12:00 Noon
University Union, Havasupai A/B
Wade Serbrooke, Ph.D., Director
American Musuem of Natural History, Southwestern Research Station
Description of Talk:
Professors and graduate students from across the
country and around the world seasonally utilize remote research
stations. How does one administer such a facility? What are the
advantages and disadvantages of remoteness? How is long-term
research integrated, or is it? What is the role for class teaching?
What are the roles of organismic versus ecosystem research for such
facilities? Who has access to these facilities? What is the
relationship to a home institution? What is unique about field
stations?
About Wade Sherbrook
Wade Sherbrooke is the Director,
Southwestern Research Station in Portal, Arizona. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1988. His current research
interests in reptilian ecology, behavior, and evolution have been
focused on a diversity of issues exemplified by horned lizards, a
genus of lizards, that is broadly distributed in the arid western
United States and throughout Mexico. Sherbrooke discovered that
horned lizards capture rain water on their backs and physically move
the moisture to the (employing capillary forces) mouth for drinking.
He coined the term "rain harvesting" for this apparently unusual
method of drinking. This and other aspects of the convergent
appearance, ecology, and biology of horned lizards and the thorny
devil lizard of the Australian deserts led to studies on rain
harvesting in the thorny devil in Australia and to a close
examination of convergent evolution between these two members of
different lizard families. Dr. Sherbrooke's popular book, Horned
Lizards: Unique Reptiles of Western North America (1981), has
recently been revised and expanded for a new edition to include all
members of the genus.
Series Schedule:
(click on date for more information)
January 29
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Remote Landscapes and
High Biodiversity: Field Station Management in the
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Wade Serbrooke, Ph.D.
Director, American Museum of Natural History
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February 19
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Bringing scientists
together to solve problems: desertification and research
on the Jornada Experimental Range
Ed L. Frederickson
Research Scientist, New Mexico State University
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February 19
2:00 P.M.
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
The business of science
at a large field station: lessons from the Jornada
Experimental Range
Kris Havstad
Supervisory Scientist, New Mexico State University
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March 5
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Biological Field
Stations: An opportunity to walk the talk
Phillipe S. Cohen, Ph.D.
Administrative Director, Stanford University
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March 12
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Making the science
relevant to management and policy: lessons from the
Pacific Northwest
Art McKee
Director, Andrews Experimental Forest, The University of
Montana
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March 26
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Havasupai Room |
Land stewardship and
conservation in the Colorado Rockies: local, regional, and
global issues
John Harte
Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of
California, Berkeley
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April 1
12:00 Noon
University Union,
Kaibab Room |
Whole thinking for land
conservationists
Peter Forbes
Director, Trust for Public Land, Center for Land and
People |
All lectures are free, open to the
public, and handicap accessible.
Co-sponsored by:
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment
Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
Centennial Forest
Trust for Public Lands
and the Diablo Trust
If you have questions, call David Fiss at (928) 523-7087
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