DAVID EHRENFELD

Professor II of Biology

Address:  122 ENR Building, Cook Campus  14 College Farm Road  New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551

Phone: (732) 932-9553     FAX: (732) 932-8746     E-mail: I prefer regular post or phone;
email for those in distant time zones: dehrenfeld@aesop.rutgers.edu.

Education:
B.A. Harvard College
M.D. Harvard Medical School
Ph.D. University of Florida (zoology)

Interests:
Conservation biology; the environment, civilization, and technology; marine turtles; environment-related writing; post-petroleum society.

Courses taught:
Fall semester:    11:704:361, Field Ecology (undergraduate)

                           16:215:604, Field Ecology (graduate)

                           16:215:510, Conservation Ecology (graduate)

Spring semester: 11:704:317, Conservation Ecology (undergraduate)

                            11:704:351, Principles of Ecology (undergraduate; I
                            am the course coordinator and one of 5 lecturers)

Editorial Positions:
Conservation Biology: Founding Editor, Consulting Editor (1994--)
Conservation Biology in Practice, Editorial Advisory Board
Ecosystem Health, Editorial Board
Conservation and Society (New Delhi, India), Editorial Board
Orion magazine, Contributing Editor

Recent peer-reviewed papers:
Ehrenfeld, D.  2000.  "War and peace and conservation biology,"  Conservation Biology 14(1): 105-112.
Etkina, E. and D. Ehrenfeld.  2000.  “Helping ecology students to read: the use of reading reports,” BioScience 50(7): 602-608.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2001.  "A postscript to Orr's commandments,  Cons. Biol. 15(4): 825-826.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2003.  “Globalization: Effects on biodiversity, environment, and society,” Conservation and Society (New Delhi) 1(1): 99-111.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2005.  “Sustainability: Living with imperfection," Cons. Biol.  19 (1) 33-35.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2005.  “The environmental limits to globalization,” Cons. Biol. 19 (2) 318-326.
Ehrenfeld, D. 2006. "Transgenics and vertebrate cloning as tools for species conservation,"  Cons. Biol. 20 (3)

Recent book chapters:
Meylan, A. and D. Ehrenfeld.  2000.  “Conservation of marine turtles,” in Turtle Conservation, M. W. Klemens, ed., Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 96-125.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2002.  “Hard times for diversity,” in Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, A. Kimbrell, ed., Island Press, 29-33.
Ehrenfeld, D.  2005.  “Unethical contexts for ethical questions,” In: Expanding Horizons in Bioethics, vol. 2, A. Galston and C. Peppard, eds., Springer.
 

Books:
2002. David Ehrenfeld. Swimming Lessons: Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology. New York: Oxford University Press.

1995: David Ehrenfeld, ed. Readings From Conservation Biology. 6 vols. To Preserve Biodiversity - An Overview; The Social Dimension; Wildlife and Forests; Plant Conservation; The Landscape Perspective; Genes, Populations, and Species) Malden, MA: Blackwell Science

1993, 1995: David Ehrenfeld, Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press.

1980: Carol K. Mack and David Ehrenfeld, The Chameleon Variant. New York: Dial Press.

1978, 1981: David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism. New York: Oxford University Press.

1972: David Ehrenfeld, Conserving Life on Earth. New York: Oxford University Press.

1970: David Ehrenfeld, Biological Conservation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Recent invited lectures:
“Hot spots and the globalization of conservation,” Oregon State University, Corvallis, April, 2000.  (Chosen by the graduate students as their invited lecturer for the year.)

"The globalization of conservation," and "The costs of e-communication," Technology and Globalization Teach-In, sponsored by The International Forum on Globalization, New York Open Center, and The Nation Institute, Hunter College, New York, February 25, 2001.

"Leadership Panel I: Conservation strategies; orientation and navigation research,"  21st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, Philadelphia, February 26, 2001.

"Unethical contexts for ethical questions,"  The Galston Lectures in Bioethics and Public Policy, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, December, 2001.

“Widening the context in the biotechnology wars,” The Rachel Carson Lecture, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, May, 2002.

E. F. Schumacher Lecture, (sponsored by 29 organizations in western Massachusetts, eastern New York, and northwest Connecticut – including the E. F. Schumacher Society, The Nature Conservancy (Berkshire-Taconic region), and the UMass Extension Agroecology Program), May, 2002.

Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, December, 2002.

“The Joseph Strategy,” Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, April, 2003.

“Globalization and Biodiversity,” Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota Law School, St. Paul, Nov., 2003.

Welcoming address, Beijing International Symposium on Biological Invasions, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, June, 2004.

Third Annual Khoshoo Memorial Lecture, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, New Delhi, India, June 2006.

Other:
2002: David Ehrenfeld, "The cow tipping point," Harper's Magazine, 305:13-20.

1997: David Ehrenfeld, "A techno-pox upon the land," Harper's Magazine , 295: 13-17.

1989-2003: David Ehrenfeld, regular columnist for Orion magazine.

1987-present: David Ehrenfeld, founding editor of Conservation Biology, (consulting editor, 1993-present). Malden, MA: Blackwell Science.