Jim has a B.S. degree in Zoology from Michigan State University (1960) and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame (1963). He received the Governor’s Medal for Excellence in Science & Technology in 1987, the D. Wynne Thorne Research Award in 1988 and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jim is the past president of the Ecological Society of America and currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Restoration Ecology and served for six years as a member of the National Research Council's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology where he chaired the section on environments and populations.

Jim's research interests center on the organization of natural communities including current research on the potential use of ecological theory as a basis for management strategies to be used in disturbed areas (especially surface mines). In addition to more than 150 technical and popular articles, he has authored two books, including a field guide to North American deserts.

Jim has received awards for his teaching and research at both universities where he has been employed. Jim received the Leone Leadership Award, the premiere leadership acknowledgment for administrators at Utah State University in 2001. Jim teaches graduate courses in Ecology, Biogeography and Mammalogy. Jim was one of the authors of the proposal to develop the (NEON) National Ecological Observatory Network and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NEON Inc.

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Dr. Theo Colborn
Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville,
President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), based in Paonia, Colorado.
Shared Recipient of the 2008 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development

Dr. Colborn earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an MA in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy.

In 1985, Dr. Colborn received a Fellowship from the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. From there she joined the Conservation Foundation in 1987 to provide scientific guidance for the 1990 book, Great Lakes, Great Legacy?, in collaboration with the Institute for Research and Public Policy, Ottawa, Canada at the request of the Canada/US International Joint Commission. She held a Chair for three years, starting in 1990, with the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and given a three-year Pew Fellows Award in 1993.

Dr. Colborn has served on numerous advisory panels, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the Ecosystem Health Committee of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, the Science Management Committee of the Toxic Substances Research Initiative of Canada, the U.S. EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee, and the EPA Endocrine Disruption Methods and Validation Subcommittee. She has published and lectured extensively on the consequences of prenatal exposure to synthetic chemicals by the developing embryo and fetus in wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans.

Over the years she established and directed the Wildlife and Contaminants Program at World Wildlife Fund US. In her retirement she has set up a non-profit, TEDX, to carry on the work of providing objective, technical information about endocrine disruption and related low-exposure hazards for academicians, policy makers, government employees, community-based and health support groups, public health authorities, physicians, the media, and individuals.

Dr. Colborn will be sharing the 2008 Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development at a ceremony November 12 in Göteborg, Sweden. more information…

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