Dr. Lehman served on the adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Ecology, and is a Resident Fellow of the University’s Institute on the Environment. For six years, he served as Associate Director of Cedar Creek Natural History Area (newly renamed CCESR). He has led several state and nationally funded projects on savanna restoration and on bioenergy. Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, owned and operated by the University of Minnesota in cooperation with the Minnesota Academy of Science, is a large ecological research site in central Minnesota with natural habitats that represent the entire state. Just a thirty-minute drive from the northern suburbs, there is no place of comparable biological diversity so close to the Twin Cities metropolitan area. World-renowned scientists have made Cedar Creek their workplace from the beginning. The modern science of ecosystem ecology was conceived here in the 1940s. Radio collars for animal tracking were invented by University of Minnesota scientists working at Cedar Creek. Long-term research on prescribed burning for savannas began here in the 1960s. Cedar Creek’s insect community has become one of the most intensely studied ecological communities anywhere. Experiments begun in the 1980s helped to establish modern ecological theory. Currently two very influential ecologists, David Tilman and Peter Reich, conduct their primary research at Cedar Creek. For more information about the event, contact Anoka-Ramsey community College Science Faculty member, Brad Wold at Brad.Wold@AnokaRamsey.edu or 763-433-1808. |