Sessions
What Have We Done to Deserve All These Cranes?
1:45 PM - 2:25 PM Thu
Stanley A. Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conservation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For 32 years he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold, and during that time he won every teaching award for which he was eligible. He has a Ph.D. in ecology from Cornell University where he studied at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He and his students have helped save many of the world’s endangered species and the habitats on which they depend. He is currently a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation where he continues to work on conservation issues at scales from local to global. He has received major conservation awards from the Society for Conservation Biology, The Wildlife Society, the National Wildlife Federation and the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. Among other recognitions of his achievements, he is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, the Explorer's Club, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He has been inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame. He has been President of the Society for Conservation Biology and Chairman of the Board of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. He has authored over 300 publications on ecology and conservation.