Lisa Curran is an American tropical

forester A forester is a person who practises forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Foresters manage forests to ...

, and Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environment & Anthropology, at Stanford University.

Education

Curran graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

with a Ph.D.

Career

Curran was professor of tropical ecology and director of the Tropical Resources Institute at the

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. Curran is a professor at the

Santa Fe Institute The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, inclu ...

Awards

*2006 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacfound.org
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Works

*Carlson, K.* and L. M. Curran, 2009. "REDD pilot project scenarios: Are costs and benefits altered by spatial scale?", ''Environmental Research Letters''. *Ponette-Gonzalez, A. G., K. C. Weathers and L. M. Curran, 2010. "Water inputs across a tropical montane landscape in Veracruz, Mexico: synergistic effects of land cover, rain and fog seasonality, and interannual precipitation variability", ''Global Change Biology'', 16 (3): 946–963. *Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, and L. M. Curran, 2009. "Pattern and process: Fire-initiated grass invasion at Amazon transitional forest edges". In: ''Fire Ecology of Tropical Ecosystems'', Ed M. Cochrane. *Balch, J.K.,* D. C. Nepstad, P. M. Brando, L. M. Curran, O. Portela, O. de Carvalho Jr., and P. Lefebvre, 2008. "Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southern Amazonia". ''Global Change Biology'' 14: 2276-2287. *Cannon, C. H.,* L. M. Curran, A. J. Marshall, and M. Leighton, 2007. "Long-term reproductive behavior of woody plants across seven Bornean forest types in the Gunung Palung National Park (Indonesia): supra-annual synchrony, temporal productivity and fruiting diversity". ''Ecology Letters'' 10:956-969. *Paoli, G. D.,* and L. M. Curran, 2007. "Soil nutrients limit aboveground productivity in mature lowland tropical forests of Southwestern Borneo". ''Ecosystems'' 10:503-518. *Gullison, R.E, P. Frumhoff, J. Canadell, C. B. Field, D.C. Nepstad, K. Hayhoe, R. Avissar, L.M. Curran, P. Friedlingsten, C.D. Jones and C. Nobre. 2007. "Tropical forests and climate policy". ''Science'' 316:985-986. *Curran, L.M. and S. D. Trigg. 2006. "Sustainability science from space: Quantifying forest disturbance and land use in the Amazon". ''Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sci''. 103:12663-12664. *Soares-Filho, B., D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran et al., 2006. "Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin". ''Nature'' 440:520-523. *Santilli, M., P. M. Moutino, S. Schwartzman, D. C. Nepstad, L. M. Curran, and C. Nobre. 2005. "Tropical deforestation and the Kyoto Protocol". ''Climatic Change'' 71:267-276. *Soares-Filho, Britaldo Silveira, Nepstad, Daniel Curtis, Curran, Lisa et al. 2005. "Cenários de desmatamento para a Amazônia". ''Estudos Avançados'' 19:137-152. *Curran, L. M., S. Trigg, A. McDonald, D. Astiani, Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago, and E. Kasischke. 2004. "Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo". ''Science'' 303:1000-1003. SOM *Barber, C. V., E. Mathews, D. Brown, T. H. Brown, L. M. Curran, C. Plume, and E. Selig. 2002. "The State of the Forest: Indonesia". ''Forest Watch International/ Global Forest Watch/World Resources Institute''. 119 pp. Also published in ''Bahasa Indonesia, Keadaan Hutan Indonesia'' 131 pp. *Curran, L. M., I. Caniago, G. D. Paoli,* D. Astiani,* M. Kusneti, M. Leighton, C. E. Nirarita, and H. Haeruman. 1999. "Impact of El Niño and logging on canopy tree recruitment in Borneo". ''Science'' 286:2184-2188.

References

External links

"Lisa Curran Interview"
''odeo'', Jun 23, 2008 * Living people Harvard University alumni Princeton University alumni Yale University faculty Stanford University Department of Anthropology faculty MacArthur Fellows American foresters Year of birth missing (living people) Women in forestry Santa Fe Institute people Conservation biologists {{Forester-stub