Regional meetings
UCDAVIS
JOHN MUIR INSTITUTE
GRADUATE EDUCATION FOR CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS
Effective conservation entails a complex combination of biology and sociology; science and
entrepreneurialism; strategy and opportunism. Universities struggle with how best to prepare graduate
students to enter the world of conservation when business management and conflict resolution training
may be as important as population genetics and statistics. How do Universities deliver an effective and
broad education in a constrained period of time? What is the responsibility of the student to identify the
kind of career in conservation that they want? How do Universities help build professional capacity in
the developing world?
RSVP required: May 17, 2010
SPECIFICS
SPEAKERS
Dr. Kent Redford,VP for Conservation Strategy, Wildlife Conservation Society
Dr. Peter Kareiva,Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Taylor Ricketts,Director of the Science Program, World Wildlife Fund
Dr. Thomas Brooks,Chief Scientist, NatureServe
Dr. Miguel Morales,Director, Equatorial Guinea Program,Conservation International
Dr. Andrew Revkin,Journalist, moderatorPace University
SCHEDULE
9:00 – 11:00 How do Universities better prepare graduate students for careers in conservation? 11:00 –
12:00 Government agency concerns regarding professional training
13:30 – 15:30 What should students do to prepare themselves for conservation careers?
19:30 – 21:00 The future of biodiversity: what can be saved and how will it be saved?
SPONSORS
The John Muir Institute of the Environment, Davis Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology The
David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology
