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Dr. James Hanken is the director of
Harvard University’s Museum
of Comparative Zoology, where he also serves as the curator of
Herpetology. Additionally, he serves as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. Hanken
earned
his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley, and then
worked on the faculty of Colorado State University for 16 years
before coming to Harvard
in 1999. His research
interests include evolutionary biology, especially development,
morphology,
and systematics, and he works principally with amphibians. Professor
Hanken oversees research efforts in Sri Lanka, Africa, and South
America, and is currently engaged in his own fieldwork in Central America,
where he is interested in describing new species of salamander.
In addition to his work as a biologist, Professor Hanken has received
awards for his nature and scientific photography.
Dr. Douglas Causey is senior biologist
at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and
serves as the chief ornithologist
in the museum. He has authored more than 120 articles and books
on natural history, biodiversity, and ornithology, and is actively
engaged
in research and public education. His research is focused on
the co-evolution and natural history of avian viruses, tropical
biodiversity,
and environmental
security and sustainability. He has active research programs
in the United States, throughout the Arctic, and Central
and South America.
At present, he is undertaking a broad-scale survey of birds
and avian
disease pathogens along migration pathways ranging from Arctic
Siberia and Alaska to both coasts of Costa Rica. He has been
working for the
past decade on various issues relating to national and international
environmental policy, and has published several recent articles
on environmental security and the conservation of forests and
biodiversity.
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