Plenary and Keynote Addresses

Tallahassee Conference

Feb 25 - Mar 1, 2009

Paradise Lost, Found, and Constructed:

Conceptualizing and Transforming Landscapes through History

Plenary Speaker: Daniel Simberloff

Thursday Evening, February 26, 2009

Daniel Simberloff is the author of Strangers in Paradise: Impact and Management of Nonindigenous Species in Florida, and many other publications. He has received several awards, including the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America. He is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies and director of the Institute for Biological Invasions at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He studies the theoretical susceptibility of ecosystems to invasion from exotic species, the practical implications of these invasions, and the potential interactions between invasive species, including the potential for invasional meltdown — where the introduction exotic species facilitates the establishment and invasion of other exotics.

For more information, see: http://eeb.bio.utk.edu/simberloff.asp

Keynote Speaker: David Quammen

Saturday Evening Banquet, February 28, 2009

David Quammen is the author of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Monster of God, and The Song of the Dodo, which won the John Burroughs Medal and the Helen Bernstein Book Award. He has written numerous other books of non-fiction and fiction as well as hundreds of articles on science, the environment, and conservation. He is also a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Bozeman, Montana and currently holds the Wallace Stegner Chair in the Department of History and Philosophy at Montana State University.

For more information, see his recent National Geographic article.

And his Montana State University page (scroll down).