Dr. David Campbell to speak on Biodiversity & Maya Gardens

On Thursday, February 14th from 12 noon to 1:15 p.m. on the third floor of Alcee Fortier, Dr. David Campbell of Grinnell College will be presenting a lecture entitled “The Ontogeny of a Feral Forest: Maya Domestic Gardens as Biodiversity Hotspots.”

We are honored to welcome Dr. Campbell, a professor of Biology, Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment, and Chair of Environmental Studies at Grinnell, who received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He specializes in the ecology and species composition of tropical and subtropical forests. His work has taken him throughout the world with study sites in Belize, Southern China and the Brazilian Amazon with extensive research on the Maya Civilization.

Dr. Campbell is the acclaimed author of The Ephemeral Islands, The Crystal Desert, Islands in Space in Time, and A Land of Ghosts. His accomplishments have been merited with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Burroughs Medal, the PEN Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, and the 2005 Lannan Award for Nonfiction.