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Dr. Aaron M. Ellison is senior research
fellow in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Harvard
Forest, and adjunct professor
in the graduate program in organismic and evolutionary biology
at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received a B.A.
in 1982 from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Brown University
in 1986. In 1992, during his tenure as the Marjorie Fisher Professor
of Environmental
Studies at Mount Holyoke College, Dr. Ellison received the
National Science Foundation's Presidential Faculty Fellow award
for "demonstrated
excellence and continued promise both in scientific and engineering
research and in teaching future generations of students to
extend and apply human knowledge." His research foci include:
food web dynamics, community ecology of wetlands and forests,
evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants, and the application
of Bayesian
inference
to ecological research and environmental decision-making.
Dr. Marianne Farrington is the associate
director of the Edgerton Research Laboratory at the New England Aquarium
in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Farrington earned a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Pennsylvania
State University in 1987, before going on to Northeastern University
to complete
her post-doctorate work. In 1991, she joined the New England
Aquarium's Edgerton Research laboratory. She began a course of
work that led to
the analysis of juvenile groundfish bycatch survival in Northwest
Atlantic Fisheries. While at the Aquarium, Dr. Farrington also
taught human
genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology of the cell, as well
as introductory biology courses through Northeastern University's
division for returning
adults, University College.
Dr. Les Kaufman is an associate professor
of biology at Boston University.
He also is a fellow at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative
Zoology and a research scholar at the New England Aquarium. Professor
Kaufman earned his Ph.D. at John Hopkins in theoretical ecology
and evolutionary biology in 1980. His research is in evolutionary
ecology and applied research in marine conservation biology,
where his
focus
is on various fish ecologies. In 1997, Professor Kaufman started
a research and graduate training effort to encourage a switch
from classical
fisheries to ecosystem-based marine resource management. The
project is active in New England, East Africa, Florida, California,
and the
tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and is also engaged with
the New England Fishery Management Council and the California
Department of Fish and Game.
Dr. Sanat Majumder is a professor emeritus
of biology, at Westfield State College. While active, Professor
Majumder taught a variety
of courses, including environmental biology; population, food,
and nutrition;
and plant physiology. In addition to teaching at Westfield
State College, Professor Majumder taught at Smith College and
St. Louis University. As a post-doctoral fellow, Majumder’s research
in radiation biology took him to Brookhaven National Laboratory
and the University
of Hawaii in Honolulu. Professor Majumder has published a book,
The Drama of
Man and Nature, as well as nearly 30 scientific papers. A native
of India, Professor Majumder currently resides in Northampton,
Massachusetts.
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