« New Articles on Ecological Economics and Governance
View or Host a ‘Common Ground’ Screening »

Center for Humans and Nature co-sponsors lecture by noted paleoecologist, David Burney, in New York City, November 30

November 16th, 2010

David Burney is Director of Conservation at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Kalaheo, Kaua’i , Hawai‘i. For two decades, he and his wife Lida Pigott Burney have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua‘i, uncovering the amazingly varied wealth of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawai‘i throughout its history. Burney has focused his investigations on the dramatic ecological changes that began after the arrival of humans almost one thousand years ago and are reaching a crescendo today. He is the author of Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua‘i: A Scientist’s Adventures in the Dark.

The event will be held on Tuesday November 30, 2010 at 6:00 pm at the City University of New York Graduate Center, Fifth Avenue (between 34th and 35th Streets), Room 4102, New York, NY. Admission is free, but preregistration is required. To register please click here.

The event is co-sponsored by The Nature Network of New York, the Center for Humans and Nature, the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Wallerstein Collaborative for Urban Environmental Education at New York University.

Bookmark and Share

More posts about biodiversity, conservation biology, ecological change, ecology, environmental ethics, evolution

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 at 10:51 am and is filed under biodiversity, conservation biology, ecological change, ecology, environmental ethics, evolution. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.