Michael E. Soulé is a U.S. biologist , best known for his work in promoting the idea of conservation biology . He earned a Ph.D. in Population Biology at Stanford University under Paul R. Ehrlich . He co-edited with Gary Lease a book of essays titled Reinventing nature?: responses to postmodern deconstruction (1995), which was a response to the arguments presented by environmental historian William Cronon and others in Uncommon ground: toward reinventing nature (1995). He is Research Professor (Emeritus) in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz . Soule was a cofounder of the Society for Conservation Biology and currently serves on the board of Round River Conservation Studies and The Wildlands Project. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...
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Population biology is a study of biological populations of organisms, especially in terms of biodiversity, evolution, and environmental biology. ...
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...
Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). ...
WILLIAM CRONON studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. ...
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UCSC or UC Santa Cruz, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California. ...
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of the phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biodiversity. ...
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Michael Soulé, father of modern conservation biology, to speak at UGAs Warnell School of Forest Resources (399 words)
Soulé is considered by many to be the father of modern conservation biology. Soulé has had a profound influence on the development of conservation biology as a multidisciplinary crisis field. Soulé was born, raised and mostly educated in California.
July/August 2003 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club (1205 words)
Michael Soulé : You should talk to my first wife, who became a Zen teacher because of me. [Laughs.] When I was a young professor, she hated to go to parties because I’d always get into arguments with people, usually about science. Soulé : Some decades ago, an old friend told me he was trying to convince the governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco to set aside a botanically important area for a national park, and wasn’t getting anywhere. Soulé : One of the connections that’s become clear to me in the last year has to do with the search to find a way back from our plunge into environmental destruction on the physical level, and into despair at an emotional level.
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