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2006 SMITH CONSERVATION FELLOWS

The Society for Conservation Biology and the Smith Fellows Program are proud to announce the recipients of the 2006 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship: Myra Finkelstein, Robert McDonald, Tania Schoennagel, and Katherine Smith.

Finkelstein will be based at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, where she will concentrate on the project "Understanding the effects of interacting threats on the survival of long-lived species."

McDonald will be based at Harvard University, USA, where he will conduct the project "Urbanization and conservation priority setting: scaling from global patterns to local processes."

Schoennagel will examine "Fire risk and forest restoration in the wildland-urban interface of the Colorado Front Range" at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Smith will be based at the University of Georgia, where she will complete the project "Forecasting infectious disease emergence resulting from the global trade in wildlife."

These four scientists were selected from a pool of 80 highly qualified applicants who proposed sponsorship by 46 different academic institutions and diverse mentor institutions, including many conservation NGOs as well as federal and state government agencies.

The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program seeks to develop future world leaders and entrepreneurs who are successful at linking conservation science research and application. These fellowships provide two-year postdoctoral support to outstanding early-career scientists from anywhere in the world based at a United States institution doing research focused on conservation as it is practiced in the United States. For more information please visit the Smith Fellows Web site, www.smithfellows.org.

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