Stephen Buchmann is a pollination ecologist specializing in bees
and their flowers. Buchmann is an adjunct professor with the
departments of Entomology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
at the University of Arizona. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of
London, he has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers
and ten books, including The Reason for Flowers: Their History,
Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives, and The Forgotten
Pollinators with Gary Paul Nabhan. Buchmann is a frequent guest on
many public media venues including NPR's All Things Considered and
Science Friday. Reviews of his books have appeared in The New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Discover magazines and other
national publications. He is an engaging public speaker on topics
of flowers, pollinators, and the natural world. His many awards
include the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and an NSTA Outstanding
Science Trade Book. Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally
celebrated nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent
of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural
diversity. He has been been honored as a pioneer and creative force
in the "local food movement" and seed saving community by Utne
Reader, Mother Earth News, New York Times, Bioneers, and Time
magazine.
As the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at
the University of Arizona Southwest Center, he works with students,
faculty and non-profits to build a more just, nutritious,
sustainable, and climate-resilient foodshed spanning the
U.S./Mexico border. He was among the earliest researchers to
promote the use of native foods in preventing diabetes, especially
in his role as a co-founder and researcher with Native
Seeds/SEARCH. Gary is also personally engaged as an orchard-keeper,
wild foods forager, and pollinator habitat restorationist working
from his small farm in Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border.
He has helped forge "the radical center" for collaborative
conservation among farmers, ranchers, indigenous peoples and
environmentalists in the West. He played key roles in establishing
the Ironwood Forest National Monument, community-based seed banks,
land reserves for conserving wild crop relatives, and restored
habitats for migratory pollinators throughout the West.
Agricultural historian Peter Hatch of Monticello has called Nabhan
"the lyrical scholar of genetic diversity." As an Arab-American
essayist and poet, he is author or editor of twenty-four books,
some of which have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Italian,
French, Croation, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. For his creative
writing and its influence on community-based conservation, he has
been honored with a MacArthur "genius" award, a Lannan Literary
Fellowship, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for
nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and several honorary degrees and
lifetime achievement awards.
He works most of the year as a research scientist at Tumamoc Hill
and the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, but he is
also engaged with several food justice and farming alliances,
including Sabores Sin Fronteras, Santa Cruz Valley Heritage
Alliance, Wild Farm Alliance, Renewing America's Food Traditions,
and the Borderlands Habitat Restoration Initiative. Nabhan is
humbled and honored to serve as a professed Ecumenical Franciscan
brother, helping the Franciscan Action Network in shaping ethical
responses to environmental injustice, to immigration issues, and to
climate change.
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