Dr. JANE LUBCHENCO Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology OSU Distinguished Professor of Zoology Department of Zoology Phone: (541) 737-5337 Cordley 3029 Fax: (541) 737-3360 Oregon State University Email: lubchenco@oregonstate.edu Corvallis, OR 97331

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Dr. Jane Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and marine ecologist who is actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge. She grew up in Colorado, received her PhD. and taught at Harvard University. Twenty-seven years ago, she moved to Oregon State University where she is Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology. Her research interests include biodiversity, climate change, sustainability science and the state of the oceans. She has received numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, eight honorary degrees (including one from Princeton University), the 2002 Heinz Award in the Environment and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2003.

Current Primary Leadership Activities

• International Council for Science , President
• National Science Board, Member (twice nominated by President Clinton and twice confirmed by the US Senate)
• PISCO, 1 of 13 PI's, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans: A Long-Term Ecological Consortium
• Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, Co-Chair; advanced leadership and communication training program for environmental scientists
• Pew Oceans Comission, Commissioner; independent group of American leaders conducting a national dialogue on the policies needed to restore and protect marine ecosystems in US waters
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Trustee
• National Academy of Sciences, Member, elected 1996
• Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS), Principal
• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Beijer Institute of Environmental Economics, Board of Directors
• Environmental Defense, Trustee
• SeaWeb, Director
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium, Trustee

Other Honors, Offices

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), President, 1997-98
• Ecological Society of America, President, 1992-94
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member
• American Philosophical Society, Member, elected 1998
  
• James D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, 1993-98
• Heinz 2002 Environmental Award
• Golden Plate Award, 2001
• Howard Vollun Award, 2001
• David B. Stone Award, 1999
• Honorary Degrees: Drexel University, 1992; Colorado College, 1993; Bates College, 1997; Unity College, 1998; Southampton College, Long Island University, 1999; Princeton University, 2001; Plymouth State College, 2002
• 8 Science Citation Classics Papers
  
• Pew Scholar Award, 1992-95
  

Research Interests

• sustainability science
• marine reserves
  
• evolutionary ecology of individuals, populations and communities
• biodiversity, conservation biology, and global change
• community structure, organization and stability
• biogeography
• foraging strategies and life histories
• plant-herbivore interactions
• rocky intertidal communities
• chemical ecology, algal ecology, marine ecology
• molluscs, echinoderms, seaweeds

Science, Conservation, and Education Interests

• science and the environment
• public understanding of science
• marine conservation biology
• ecosystem services
• ecological causes and consequences of global change

Recent Representative Publications

Lubchenco, Jane, R. Davis-Born, B. Simler, 2002. Lesson from the Land for the Protection of the Sea: The Need for a New Ocean Ethic . Open Spaces 5:10-19.

Lubchenco, Jane, S.R. Palumbi, S.D. Gaines, S. Andelman, 2002. Plugging a Hole in the Ocean: The Emerging Science of Marine Reserves. Ecological Applications Special Issue, in press.

Allison, G.W., S.D. Gaines, J. Lubchenco, H.P. Possingham, 2002. Ensuring persistence of marine reserves: Catastrophes require adopting an insurance factor. Ecological Applications, in press.

Menge, B.A., E. Sanford, B.A. Daley, T.L. Freidenburg, G. Hudson, and J. Lubchenco, 2002. An Inter-hemispheric comparison of bottom-up effects on community structure: insights revealed using the comparative-experimental approach. Ecological Research 17:1-16.

Naylor, R.L. et. al., 2000. Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies. Nature 405:1017-1024.

Dasgupta, P., S. Levin, J. Lubchenco, 2000. Economic pathways to ecological sustainability: Challenges for the new millenium. Bioscience 50:339-345.

Daily, G.C. et al., 1999. The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value. Science 289: 395-396.

Menge, B.A., B.A. Daley, J. Lubchenco, E. Sanford, E. Dahlhoff, P.M. Halpin, G. Hudson, and J. Burnaford, 1999. Top-down or bottom-up regulation of New Zealand rocky intertidal communities. Ecological Monographs 69:297-330.

National Science Board, 1999. Environmental science and engineering for the 21st Century: The role of the National Science Foundation. Report NSB 99-133. http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/tfe/nsb99133 . (J. Lubchenco chaired the Task Force, which drafted the report).

Allison, G.W., J. Lubchenco, and M. Carr, 1998. Marine reserves are necessary but not sufficient for marine conservation. Ecol. Applications 8:S79-S92.

Lubchenco, J., 1998. Entering the century of the environment: A new social contract for science. Science 279:491-497.
http://sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/279/5350/491

Naylor, R., R. Goldburg, H. Mooney, M. Beveridge, J. Clay, C. Folke, N. Kautsky, J. Lubchenco, J. Primavera, M. Williams, 1998. Nature's subsidies to shrimp and salmon farming. Science 282:883-884.

Vitousek, P.M., H.A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J.M. Melillo, 1997. Human domination of earth's ecosystems. Science 277:494-499.