Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Policy

Contact Info:

Office Location:	A301, LSRC Bldg., Box 90328
Office Phone:	(919) 613-8141
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ENVIRON 103D.001, CONSERVING THE VARIETY OF LIFE Synopsis

  LSRC A109, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• ENVIRON 103D.01D, CONSERVING THE VARIETY OF LIFE

  LSRC A109, Tu 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• ENVIRON 203.001, CONSERVA BIO:THEORY/PRAC

  LSRC A109, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• ENVIRON 203.01D, CONSERVA BIO:THEORY/PRAC

  LSRC A109, W 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

• ENVIRON 298.41, SPECIAL TOPICS

  LSRC A211, TuTh 06:00 PM-09:00 PM

• ENVIRON 298.61, SPECIAL TOPICS

  SEE INSTRU, F 06:00 PM-08:00 PM

• ENVIRON 298.61, ADV TOPICS IN CONSERV BIOLOGY

  SEE INSTRU, F 06:00 PM-08:00 PM

Education:

PhD	New Mexico State University	1974
BA	Oxford, United Kingdom	1971

Specialties:

biodiversity
conservation biology

Research Interests: Species extinctions and what can be done to prevent them. The loss of tropical forests and its consequences to biodiversity.

Curriculum Vitae

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Montoya, J. M., S. L. Pimm and R.V. Solé, Ecological networks and their fragility, Nature, vol. 442 (2006), pp. 259-264
2. Van Houtan, K. S. & Pimm, S. L., The Christian ethics of species conservation, in Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Prudence in a World in Flux, edited by D. M. Lodge & C. Hamlin (2006), pp. 116-147, University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, IN
3. S.L. Pimm, Food Webs (with a new Forward). (2003), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ((with a new Forward).)
4. Pimm, S.L. and C. Jenkins, Sustaining the variety of Life, Scientific American (September, 2005), pp. 66-73
5. S.L. Pimm, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth (2001), pp. 304, New York: McGraw Hill