Christopher Stephen Vaughan

Title:
Adjunct Professor, Department of Wildlife Ecology
Contact Information:
233 Russell Labs
1630 Linden Dr
UW-Madison
Madison WI 53706
Phone: (608)263-2071
email: cvaughan@wisc,edu

 

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.        2006; Grinnell College; Grinnell, Iowa; Honorary Doctor of Science (http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/ce/commencement/2006/hd/)  (http/www.nelson/wisc.edu/blog/?p=147)

Ph. D.      2002; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Land Rsources Dissertation:
                Conservation Strategies for a Scarlet Macaw (Ara maccao) Population in Costa Rica
               
M.S.        1978; University of Costa Rica-CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica; Natural Resources,
                  Thesis:  Management and Development Plan for Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

B.S.        1971; Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa;  Biology

CAREER SUMMARY

Between 1974-2000, I worked in the Environmental Sciences School and the International Institute for Wildlife Conservation and Management http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr  at the Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica) in different administrative, research and teaching capacities . Although initially I studied wildlife populations, I feel local human stakeholders are necessary if local natural resources are to be conserved. Presently I coordinate the Chocolate Biodiversity and Productivity Project (Milwaukee Public Museum-University of Wisconsin-USDA) Chocolate-
 http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/sep03/169859.asp and co-edit the international scientific journal, Vida Silvestre Neotropical. I also continue teaching Latin American graduate students in Costa Rica and conduct research on a Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) population in a human-dominated landscape begun in 1990 (see http://www.lappacr.org) . At Wildlife Ecology (UW-Madison), I have taught Sustainable Development in Costa Rica and currently teach Extinction of Species (Wildlife Ecology 360) with 300 undergraduate and graduate students (Fall 2006). Also I orient UW undergraduate and graduate students interested in the neotropics.

 

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