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Spring Seminar Series

Guest Speaker Winner!‏‏‏

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all of you who voted for your favorite person. This year the winner is...Vandana Shiva!!! We'll contact her and hopefully she'll be ale to accept our invitation and come during the spring. But because she is a big name, we might not be so lucky, in which case we'll contact the second place winner which is David Mech. In any case, please stay tuned for more information to come. You can visit our website at http://sites.google.com/site/natresgradso/ to see news and announcements, we'll keep you posted.

Thank you for you participation!

Vandana Shiva


Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989). Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin.

She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya (‘nine seeds’), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India‘s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics.

Additional Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva

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L. David Mech

David Mech is a Senior Scientist with the Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. He has studied wolves and their prey since 1958, as well as several other species of wildlife.

Although administration of his U.S. Geological Survey research is through Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, he is headquartered on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota in the Gabbert Raptor Center. Mech is also founder and vice chair of the International Wolf Center, and chair of the IUCN Wolf Specialist Group.

Mech has used radio-tracking for most of his career on wolves, deer, leopards, caribou, elk, lions, elephants, raccoons, lynxes, elk, hares, etc. For basic info, see Handbook of Animal Radio-tracking, and for info about satellite and GPS collars, see "A critique of wildlife radio-tracking and its use in national parks: a report to the National Park Service".