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Marsh Distinguished Lecture Series - October 2002

David R. Foster

Director of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University
"Using Ecological History to Address Emerging Conservation Issues in New England"
Thursday, October 31, 2002, 12:00 noon
Jefferson 218

David is the author of Thoreau's Country - Journey through a Transformed Landscape (1999 Harvard University Press) and New England Forests Through Time (2000 Harvard University Press). He is the director of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University where he has been a faculty member in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology since 1983. The Harvard Forest is a 3000-acre ecological research and educational institute in central Massachusetts that is one of twenty-four sites in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

David has a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Minnesota and has conducted research in the boreal forests of Labrador, Sweden and Norway and the tropical forests of Puerto Rico and the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, in addition to his primary studies on temperate forest dynamics in eastern North America. His interests focus on understanding the historical changes in forest ecosystems that result from human and natural disturbance and applying these results to the conservation of landscapes and biodiversity and the management of natural resources.