GARY SPENCER HARTSHORN
Executive Director, Organization for Tropical Studies
Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)
Box 90630
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0630
USA
Phone: 919-684-5774; FAX: 919-684-5661; e-mail: ghartsho@acpub.duke.edu
EDUCATION
1965 BS (Biology), Moravian College, Bethlehem PA
1968 MS (Botany), North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC
1972 Ph.D. (Forest Resources), University of Washington, Seattle WA
EMPLOYMENT
1973-74 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
1974-88 Consultant, president 1981-85, Tropical Science Center,
San José, Costa Rica
1989-91 Director, Biodiversity Support Program, World Wildlife
Fund, Washington DC
1990-95 Vice President and Chief Scientist, World Wildlife Fund
1996-present, Executive Director, Organization for Tropical Studies
PREFESSIONAL (recent)
1989 Member, NSF & AID Steering Committee for Research
1990-1991 Member, NRC/BOSTID Review Panel on International Forestry Research
1990-1996 Board of Trustees, Vice-chair 1994, Institute of Current World Affairs
1991-1995 Board of Directors, Vice-chair 1993-96, Tropical Forest Foundation
1992-1995 Board of Directors, General Service Foundation
1994-1999 Board of Directors, World Forestry Center
HONORS & AWARDS
1978-1982 Forest and Man Fellow, Institute of Current World Affairs
1989 President, Association for Tropical Biology
1991-present Presidential appointment as a US representative to the Joint Commission on the Environment; elected chairman
1993-1994; Presidential reappointment 1995
1993 Comenius award, outstanding alumnus of Moravian College
FIVE MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
- Costa Rica Country Environmental Profile: A Field Study. USAID/TSC, San
José, Costa Rica. 123 pp. 1982 [senior author with 15 co-authors]
- Key environmental issues for developing countries. J. International
Affairs 44(2): 393-402. 1991.
- La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rainforest. Univ.
Chicago Press, Chicago, 486 pp. 1994. [with L. McDade, K. Bawa and
H. Hespenheide, eds.]
- Ecological basis for sustainable development in tropical forests. Ann.
Rev. Ecol. Syst. 26: 155-175, 1995.
- OTS as an institution for conservation biology. Pages 569-570 in G. Meffe,
R. Carroll and contributors. Principles of Conservation Biology, 2nd
ed. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland MA. 1997 [with D. Stone]
OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
- Neotropical forest dynamics. Biotropica 12: 23-30. 1980
Plants. Pages 118-157 in D. Janzen (ed.) Costa Rican Natural History.
Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago . 1983
- Application of gap theory to tropical forest management: Natural
regeneration on strip clear-cuts in the Peruvian Amazon. Ecology
70(3): 567-569. 1989
- Sustainable tropical forestry. Pages 603-608 in G. Meffe, R. Carroll and
contributors. Principles of Conservation Biology, 2nd ed. Sinauer
Associates, Sunderland MA. 1977 [ with W. Pariona A.]
- Tropical and subtropical vegetation of Meso-America. In M. Barbour and D.
Billings, eds. North American Terrestrial Vegetation, 2nd ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York. [In Press]
Collaborators: Richard Carroll, Barry Hammel, David Janos, William
Pariona, Anthony Stocks
Advisors: Arthur W. Cooper, William H. Hatheway, Gordon H. Orians