*NEW DATE & TIME* Lion Conservation on a Crowded Continent
Craig Packer
Tuesday, 27 Nov 2018 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Rescheduled from October 29Craig Packer is director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, where he is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior. For decades, Packer and his research team have conducted comprehensive long-term research on lion behavior and human-lion interaction for the famous Serengeti Lion Project. Their findings have shaped the way we understand lions and their role in complex savannah ecosystems and identified new approaches for protecting these dangerous predators. Packer is the author of Into Africa, which won the 1995 John Burroughs medal, as well as more than 100 scientific articles. Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture
Craig Packer received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 1972. While at Stanford, Packer went to Tanzania to study baboons with Jane Goodall at the Gombe Stream Research Centre. He then went to the University of Sussex to complete his Ph.D. research on the Gombe baboons.
After a study of Japanese macaques in Hakusan National Park, Packer returned to Tanzania in 1978 to head the Serengeti lion project. He subsequently held a post-doctoral position at the University of Chicago and joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1983, returning to the Serengeti for several months each year.
Packer received a J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990, became a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 1997, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
Cosponsored By:
- Agronomy
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences F. WendellMiller Lecture Fund
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program
- Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology
- Iowa Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
- Natural Resource Ecology and Management
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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