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Dr. Botkin currently serves as an adjunct biology professor at the University of Miami, as well as a professor emeritus for the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Biology, Environmental Science, and Education |
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Dr. Botkin studies life from a planetary perspective, helps solve major environmental issues, uses historical accounts by Lewis and Clark and Henry David Thoreau to discuss the character of nature and the relationship between people and nature, and more. |
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Biologist, Scientisy, Journalist, Writer, and Public Speaker |
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Explorers Club, New York; Cosmos Club, Washington, DC; Fellow, AAAS; Sigma Xi; American Inst. of Biological Sciences; Ecological Society of America; Authors Guild; Teachers and Academic Textbook Assn; Commissioner, U.S. UNESCO Commission. |
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Dr. Botkin has 50 years of experience in his field. He was Chairman of the English Department of the newly formed Mindanao State University (among seven faculty members in the department, all American Peace Corps Volunteers) whilst also taught introductory physics. He worked for The World Wide Medical News Service in 1964. In 1990, Dr. Botkin founded a nonprofit corporation, The Center for the Study of the Environment. |
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Obtained a Master’s Degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in English Literature |
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Folk Music |
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Dr. Botkin's forthcoming book, Tsavo, is being published by Book Vine Press and will be available for purchase in Fall 2018. Widely used, prizewinning college science text; 13 trade books, most recently The Moon in the Nautilus Shell, and Powering the Future: A Scientist’s Guide to Energy Independence; Landmark book Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st Century; Several hundred articles in professional journals and popular magazines and newspaper op-eds. |
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Dr. Botkin wrote and created the first successful multispecies computer ecology called JABOWA, completing this project with two scientists from IBM Thomas J. Watson Laboratories back in 1970. He helped found and has led the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research Program. He initiated NASA’s use of satellite remote sensing to study ecology from space. He has advised the government of Taiwan in solving environmental problems, and helped California handle problems such as toxic waste leakage and water withdrawal. Additionally, Dr. Botkin has helped the state preserve their native species of condor. |
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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, John C. Pritzlaff Conservation Award for career contributions in the conservation of nature; Oxford University Astor Lectureship; Bernhard Eduard Fernow Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Forestry; Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development; Environmental Hall of Fame, California Polytechnic Inst., Pomona; Textbook and Academic Authors Association, Award, Best Biological Sciences Textbook; Distinguished visitor professor: University of Notre Dame; University of Montana; Green Mountain College; Annual distinguished visiting scientist, Long Beach Aquarium |
