Contributor: Steve Hubbell

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Stephen P. Hubbell is a Distinguished Research Professor of Botany in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia. Before joining the University of Gerogia, Dr. Hubbell was a Butler Fellow and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty in 1988, he served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and University of Iowa, and as a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1992 he was on leave from Princeton as a senior research fellow of the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Hubbell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984 and was a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment from 1990-1992. In 1992 he received the Distinguished National Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hubbell’s principal research concerns the ecology and management of tropical rain forests. His work focuses on long-term dynamics of tropical rain forests in the new and old world tropics, as well as the implications of global change for the conservation and management of forests. He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, and a B.A. (magna cum laude) in Biology from Carleton College in 1963.

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