Keynote Presentation: Don Falk

Don Falk is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and has received a FulbrightShort-Term Scholar award, the Ecological Society of America’s Deevey Award, and the Udall Faculty Fellowship in PublicPolicy. He is the author of more than 150 publications, including five edited books, including Genetics and Conservation of Rare Plants (Oxford University Press, with Kent Holsinger), Restoring Diversity (with Connie Millar and Peggy Olwell) and Foundations of Restoration Ecology, with Margaret Palmer and Joy Zedler (both Island Press), and The Landscape Ecology of Fire (Springer, with Don McKenzie and Carol Miller. Don was a UA delegate to the 2015 climate summit in Paris, and leads the University of Arizona’s undergraduate degree program in Global Change Ecology and Management, the University Minor in Climate Change and Society, and teaches courses in climate solutions.

Don was co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Plant Conservation, originally at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and now at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance; he then served as the first Executive Director of the Society for Ecological Restoration. Don holds degrees from Oberlin College, Tufts University, and the University of Arizona, and joined the UA faculty in 2007.