Don Falk
Don Falk is Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources, University of Arizona, with joint appointments in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. His research focuses on fire history, fire ecology, dendroecology, and restoration ecology, including multi-scale studies of fire as an ecological and physical phenomenon. He has received research support and fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the US Forest Service, and has been honored for his work by the Pinchot Institute, Australian Fulbright Foundation, and the McGinnies Scholarship in Arid Lands Studies, among others. In 2003 he received the Edward S. Deevey Award from the Ecological Society of America for outstanding graduate work in paleoecology, and in 2008 received the "Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology" award from the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Don is a Fellow of the AAAS, and is appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano to serve as a member of the Arizona Forest Health Council. Don was co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Plant Conservation, originally at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and now at the Missouri Botanical Garden. He served subsequently as first Executive Director of the Society for Ecological Restoration. His publications include numerous journal articles and book chapters, and three books on conservation genetics and restoration ecology, including Foundations of Restoration Ecology, published by Island Press in 2006. He currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Island Press-SER series, Science and Practice of Restoration Ecology, which he helped to establish.
