Scott A. Margolin '99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs

2009 Scott A. Margolin '99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs

Title TBA

Dr. P. Dee Boersma
Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science
Biology Department, University of Washington

Spring 2009
Date & time: TBA

Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Janet Wiseman

Recent New York Times article about
the work of Dr. Boersma: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/science/01peng.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Dr. Boersma received her B.Sc. Honors from Central Michigan University in 1969, and her Ph.D. in Zoology, from Ohio State University in 1974. Her thesis was titled: “The Galapagos Penguin: A Study of Adaptations for Life in an Unpredictable Environment.”

Dee was recently appointed to the Wadsworth Endowed Chair in Conservation Science in the University of Washington's department of Biology. She has been at the University of Washington since 1974, initially as professor of Zoology and then as professor of Biology following the merger of the Zoology, Biology and Botany departments. She is currently Acting Chair of the Biology department, as well as an adjunct faculty member in the Women Studies department.

Dee has also been enlisted to take on numerous national and international leadership and advisory positions in such diverse roles as member of the Board of Trustees of Central Michigan University, as an advisor to the United States Delegation to the United Nations World Population Conference in Romania, as a member of President Nixon's Task Force of Women's Rights and Responsibilities, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Zero Population Growth. In addition, Professor Boersma was associate director of the Institute for Environmental Studies from 1987-1993.

For more information about Dr. Boersma,
please visit her website:
http://www.biology.washington.edu/index.html?navID=42&parecID=20

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The Scott A. Margolin '99 Environmental Affairs Lecture is organized and sponsored each year by the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury College. The lecture, like the Environmental Studies Program, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the natural environment and human interaction with it.

In 1998, the Environmental Affairs Lecture was named in honor of Scott A. Margolin, of the Middlebury College Class of 1999. In his one year here, Scott established himself as a dedicated student of Environmental Studies, a leader in Environmental Quality and other student affairs, and an outstanding writer. He lives in our memory.

Past Speakers:

2008
Gus Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

2007
Barry Lopez, essayist and nature writer

2006
Michael E. Mann, Director, Penn State Earth System Science Center

2005
Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

2004
J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy, University of North Texas

2003
Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University

2002
Michael Dombeck, Former Chief of the United States Forest Service