This page has moved. Click here if you are not redirected The Fifth McCabe Lecturer

Biodiversity is Closer
Than We Realize:
An Educational
Perspective

a lecture by
Mr. Thomas F. Tyning
given 26 April 2001


Thomas Tyning is a professional naturalist and writer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Berkshire Community College. Recently he was the Field Herpetologist with the Massachusetts Audubon Society where he has worked for 24 years. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Springfield College and Antioch New England Graduate School where he teaches Amphibian Biology, Herpetology, Field Entomology, Field Ornithology and other courses. For the past 24 years he has written a weekly newspaper column about nature for the Springfield (MA) Union-News and Stokes Nature Guides series (Little, Brown and Co.). Tom leads natural history tours to such places as Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica, Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin, South Florida’s Everglades, Newfoundland and eastern Canada, and the desert Southwest. His graduate work from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) focused on the biology and conservation of the Timber rattlesnake.

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