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College at Oneonta News
October 3, 2005
AUTHOR OF WIN-WIN ECOLOGY TO OFFER ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ADDRESS AT SUNY-ONEONTA
ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Well known scientist and author Michael Rosenzweig will present the annual Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Lecture on Environmental Education and Communication at the SUNY College at Oneonta on Thursday, October 20, at 8 p.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom on campus. Members of the community are invited to attend the presentation. Admission is complimentary.
A professor of ecology and environmental biology at the University of Arizona, Dr. Rosenzweig is best known as the author of Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise. His theories of "reconciliation ecology" have received widespread attention in the scientific community and the media. Reconciliation ecology suggests that we can conserve species by establishing new habitats for them while continuing to use the land for our benefit in environmentally sound ways.
An ecologist for over 40 years, Rosenzweig has participated in some of the seminal ecological research of the twentieth century, working with mathematical theories of predation dynamics, foraging choice, and species diversity. His research established that the number of species able to survive in an environment depends on the amount of area available to them, thereby providing the scientific basis for reconciliation ecology.
Rosenzweig founded the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in 1975 and served as its first head. He founded the scientific journals "Evolutionary Ecology" and "Evolutionary Ecology Research" and serves as publisher and editor-in-chief of the latter. Rosenzweig is also the author of the books "And Replenish the Earth" and "Species Diversity in Space and Time," as well as many publications in the fields of desert mammal ecology, environmental issues and public policy, species diversity, optimal density-dependent habitat selection, and predation dynamics.
Rosenzweig, who holds a doctorate in zoology from the University of
Pennsylvania,
has taught as a visiting scholar at major universities in the United
States, Sweden, Canada, Israel, and Australia.
The Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Annual Lectureship on Environmental Education and Communication was established by Virginia and William Kaufmann through a gift to the College at Oneonta Foundation in 1999. The lecture series is named in honor of several families from the Oneonta and Stamford areas who exemplified an enduring love and appreciation for the natural resources of the Catskill region. Virginia Kaufmann is a 1944 graduate of the College at Oneonta.
More information about the Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Annual Lectureship is available from Dr. James Mills of the Environmental Sciences Program at SUNY-Oneonta at (607) 436-3150.
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For more information about the College, please call the Community Relations Office
at (607) 436-2748
or send e-mail to Carol Blazina,
Vice
President for Community Relations.
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