February 23, 1999

Chief Scientist for the Conservation Biology Institute

to Speak at Middlebury College on Mar. 9

Dr. Reed Noss Presents “Regional Strategies

for Biodiversity Conservation”

Dr. Reed Noss, chief scientist of the Conservation

Biology Institute, will give a talk titled “Regional Strategies

for Biodiversity Conservation” at Middlebury College’s annual

Scott Margolin Environmental Affairs Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,

March 9 in the McCullough Student Center on Old Stone Row, off

Route 30. Free and open to the public, the annual lecture was

named in 1998 in honor of Scott Margolin, a member of the Middlebury

College Class of 1999.

Noss is an international consultant in conservation,

an affiliated faculty member at Oregon State University, science

editor for Wild Earth magazine, and a martial arts instructor.

In his thirty years as an environmental professional, Noss has

also worked for the Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Protection

Agency, and from 1993 to 1997, was the editor of Conservation

Biology, the premier journal in the field.

The author of over 150 scientific papers, Noss has

published two books. “Saving Nature’s Legacy,” co-authored

with Allen Cooperrider in 1994, won the annual publication award

of the Natural Resources Council of America. “The Science

of Conservation Planning,” co-authored with Michael O’Connell

and Dennis Murphy, appeared in 1997. Noss has received a Pew Fellowship

in Conservation and the Environment and the Edward T. LaRoe Memorial

Award of the Society for Conservation Biology.

For more information about the lecture, contact Janet

Wiseman at the Middlebury College Environmental Studies Program

at 802-443-5710.