C. Josh Donlan is an American

ecologist Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...

and conservation practitioner who founded and leads Advanced Conservation Strategies (ACS). The environmental conservation NGO focuses on program design, sustainability sciences, and evaluation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific and popular articles, some of them receiving widespread media attention. He is currently a Research Fellow at the

Cornell Lab of Ornithology The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which studies birds and other wildlife. It is housed in the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity in Sapsucker Woods Sanctuar ...

. He splits his time between the Wasatch Mountains and Andalucia.

Career history and awards

*2008–2017: Visiting Fellow, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University *2012–2014: Invited Professor, University of South Paris, France *2011-2012: Visiting Professor, Universidad de Magallanes, Chile *2010:

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

*2008: Selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 by Houghton Mifflin *2008: Conservation Fellow, The Kinship Foundation *2002: Fellow, Environmental Leadership Program *1998 Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellow

Selected works

*2019: The characterization of seafood mislabeling: A global meta analysis *2019: Exploring the causes of seafood fraud: A meta-analysis on mislabeling and price *2015: A human-centered framework for innovation in conservation incentive programs *2015: Proactive Strategies for Protecting Species: Pre-listing Conservation and the Endangered Species Act *2015: Incentivizing biodiversity conservation with

artisanal fishing Artisanal, subsistence, or traditional fishing consists of various small-scale, low-technology, fishing practices undertaken by individual fishermen (as opposed to commercial fishing). Many of these households are of coastal or island ethnic grou ...

communities through territorial user rights and business model innovation *2013: Gene tweaking for conservation *2011: Archipelago-wide island restoration in the Galapagos Islands: Reducing costs of invasive mammal eradication programs and reinvasion risk *2011: Paul S. Martin (1928-2010): Luminary, natural historian, and innovator *2011: Biodiversity offsets: an interim solution to seabird bycatch in fisheries? *2010: A derivative approach to endangered species conservation *2009: Debt investment as a tool for value transfer in biodiversity conservation *2007: Restoring America’s big, wild animals *2006: Pleistocene Rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation *2005: Re-wilding North America *2002: Golden eagles, feral pigs and island foxes: how exotic species turn native predators into prey

References

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