Exploring New Opportunities for Educating Conservation Professionals
Date: May 17, 2010
Location: Buehler Alumni Center, AGR Room, UC Davis
FORUM: Graduate Education for Conservation Professionals9:00am - 12:15pm
TOWN HALL FORUM: The Future of Biodiversity:What should be saved, why and how?
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Effective conservation entails a complex combination of biology and sociology; science and entrepreneurism; strategy and opportunism. Universities struggle with how best to prepare graduate students to enter the world of conservation when business management and conflict resolution training may be as important as population genetics and statistics.
This forum will address questions such as:
- How do universities deliver an effective and broad education in a constrained period of time?
- How can students better identify and prepare themselves for careers in conservation?
- How do universities help build professional capacity in the developing world?
Registration highly recommended, http://envnet.ucdavis.edu/tools/rsvp/?gecp2010
Schedule
FORUM: Graduate Education for Conservation Professionals
Agency Perspectives: 9:00 am - 10:15 am
- Ray Sauvajot, National Park Service
- Tom Suchanek, US Geological Survey
- Hugh Safford, US Forest Service
- Josh Hull, Fish and Wildlife Service
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, Journalist, Pace University
Conservation Organization Perspectives: 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
- Kent Redford, Wildlife Conservation Society
- Miguel Morales, Conservation International
- Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy
- Taylor Ricketts, World Wildlife Fund
- Eleanor Sterling, American Museum of Natural History
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, Journalist, Pace University
TOWN HALL FORUM: The Future of Biodiversity: What should be saved, why and how? (More information)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
- Peter Kareiva, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy
- Miguel Morales, Science & Knowledge Division, Conservation International
- Kent Redford, VP for Conservation Strategy, Wildlife Conservation Society
- Taylor Ricketts, Director of the Science Program, World Wildlife Fund
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, Journalist, Pace University
Sponsors
John Muir Institute of the Environment, Davis Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology, NSF Responding to rapid environmental change IGERT, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences