ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Dr. Gene
Likens, the President and Director of the Institute for Ecosystems
Studies in Millbrook, NY, will present the annual
Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Lecture on Environmental Education
and Communication at the SUNY College at Oneonta on Thursday,
October 18, at 8 p.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom on campus. He will
speak on the topic of "Acid Rain: An Unfinished Environmental
Problem." Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of
the community are invited to attend.
Dr. Likens is the co-founder of the
Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study,
which produced seminal research papers and books describing
ecosystem functions and links with land-use practices. He and his
colleagues were among the first to document the link between the
burning of fossil fuels and acid rain.
Dr. Likens received the National Medal of Science, the nation's
highest science honor, in 2001 for his contributions to ecology. In
2003, he was the co-recipient of the Blue Planet Prize for
outstanding scientific research helping to solve global
environmental problems. He received the 1994 Australia Prize for
Science and Technology and was co-recipient of the 1993 Tyler Prize:
World Prize for Environmental Achievement.
A graduate of Manchester College with a Ph.D. in Zoology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Likens has taught at Dartmouth
College, Cornell University, Yale University, and Rutgers
University. He also served for more than ten years as Vice President
of the New York Botanical Garden.
Dr. Likens was elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1979 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1981. He
has served as President of the Ecological Society of America,
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Institute
of Biological Sciences, and International Association for
Theoretical and Applied Limnology.
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 was a 1944 graduate of the
College at Oneonta.
More information about the Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann
Lecture is available from Dr. Thomas Horvath, Director of the
Environmental
Sciences Program at SUNY-Oneonta, at (607) 436-3899.
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