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Smith College's Science Center Director
Honored with Prestigious Environmental Science Fellowship
Editor's note: For a complete
list of the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows of 2004, visit
www.leopoldleadership.org or call Cynthia Barakatt at (617)
226-2189 or Cynthia Robinson at (617) 720-5100
NORTHAMPTON,
Mass. -- Thomas S. Litwin, director of the Clark Science
Center at Smith College, is one of 20 outstanding academic
environmental scientists from throughout the U.S. and Guam
awarded an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship for 2004.
Litwin is a member of Smith's Department of Biological
Sciences and the Environmental Science & Policy Program
as well as a graduate faculty member in the Department of
Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to coming to Smith in 1989,
he served as a senior research associate in Cornell University's
Division of Biological Sciences and program director at the
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where he also received
his Ph.D. At Smith, Litwin served as founding director of
the Environmental Science & Policy Program. His research
interests include landscape ecology, conservation biology
and environmental policy. In 2001, Litwin served as expedition
leader for the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced,
which was made into a documentary film by Larry Hott and
Diane Garey of Florentine Films and broadcast nationally
on PBS.
Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships provide scientists with
intensive communications and leadership training to help
them communicate scientific information effectively to non-scientific
audiences, especially policymakers, the media, business leaders
and the public. Twenty Fellows are selected annually through
a competitive application process.
The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program was launched in 1998
with the goal of improving the flow of accurate, clear scientific
information to policy makers, the media and the public by
training outstanding academic environmental scientists to
be better communicators of complex scientific information.
The program is named for Aldo Leopold, a renowned environmental
scientist who communicated his scientific knowledge simply
and eloquently. His writings, including his 1949 book, "A
Sand County Almanac," are credited with infusing the
emerging conservation movement with good science and a stewardship
ethic.
For more information about the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
and the new Fellows, visit www.leopoldleadership.org.
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