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2012-13
David Eagleman, neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action, Baylor College of Medicine; author of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. "The Secret Lives of the Human Brain." Part of the being human | human being series |
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2011-12
Doug Peacock, naturalist, outdoorsman, and author of Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness and Walking it Off: A Veteran's Chronicle of War And Wilderness. "The Greatest Adventure: A Survivor's Guide to a Melting Century." Part of the Conflict series. |
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2010-11
Richard Louv, journalist and author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. “Beyond Nature-Deficit Disorder: The Restorative Power of the Natural World.” Part of the Sustenance series. |
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2009-10
Denis Hayes, President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970. "Is Prosperity Incompatible with Posterity?" |
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2008-09
Sean
Carroll, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institution, University of Wisconsin. "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species." Part of the Darwin Lecture Series. |
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2007-08
Stephen Schneider, biology and environmental studies, Stanford. "Global Warming: How Do We Manage the Risks?" |
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2006-07
David James Duncan, writer. "Why the American West Needs the Asian East" |
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2005-06
William L. Fox, writer. "Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent" and "Climbing Mt. Limbo: On the Edge of Land and Language." |
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2004-05
There was no Clark Lecture |
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2003-04
Daniel Slosberg, fiddler and living historian. “Pierre Cruzatte: A Musical Journey along the Lewis and Clark Trail.” |
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2002-03
Kathleen Dean Moore, Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University, and Director, Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. "The Sound of Human Longing: Field Notes for an Environmental Ethic of Care." |
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2001-02
David Quammen, science writer. “The Improbable Lion and the Post-Communist Bear: Man-Eating Predators in a Crowded World.” |
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2000-01
William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Telling Tales on Canvas: Landscapes of Frontier Change.”
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1999-2000
Terry Tempest Williams, author, naturalist, and environmental activist. “Hieronymus Bosch in North America.” |
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1998-99
There was no Clark Lecture |
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1997-98
David Rains Wallace, Recipient, John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing, former NEA and Fulbright Foundation fellow. “Land Bridges and Land Ethics.” |
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1996-97
Chris Maser, forest ecologist, writer on nature and culture. “Sustainable Community Development.” |
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1995-96
Robert D. Clark, President Emeritus, University of Oregon. “Thomas Condon, Geologist and Preacher: His Reconciliation of Science and Religion.” |
