Joan & Dick Stroud
Memorial Lectures

These lectures bring the highest level of scientific expertise to the Stroud Center in order to enlighten and entertain our "Friends of the Stroud Center" members in topics related to stream, river, and watershed ecology.

"Friends of the Stroud Center" receive invitations by mail. All others please reserve seating by contacting Kay Dixon by email, or phone 610-268-2153 x247.

An Evening with Liz Walker
Co-Founder and Executive Director of EcoVillage at Ithaca (EVI)

Previous Stroud Memorial Lecturers have included:

• Mayra Bonilla, outdoor photographer, founder Audiovise S.A., Costa Rica
• Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
• Dr. Michael Dombeck, former chief of the US Forest Service, Pioneer Professor of Global Environmental Management University of Wisconsin
• James A. Duke, Ethnobotanist, Director, Duke’s Herbal Vineyard, Inc.
• Dr. Sylvia Earle, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
• Scott Faber, Farm Policy Campaign Director for Environmental Defense
• Dr. Jane Goodall The Jane Goodall Institute
• Daniel Janzen, Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper
• Gene Likens, Director, Institute for Ecosystem Studies
• Wangari Maathai, Founder of the Greenbelt Movement, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• Patrick McCully, Campaigns Director, International Rivers Network
• William McDonough, internationally recognized designer practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning
• L.D. McMullen, CEO and General Manager, Des Moines Water Works
• Robert McCracken Peck, Academy Fellow, Curator of Art & Artifacts, Editor, Scientific Publications, Academy of Natural Science
• Sandra Postel, Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute
• Robert M. Pyle, author, Chasing Monarchs: A Migration with the Butterflies of Passage and other nature books
• Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Vincent Resh, Professor, Insect Biology, University of California, Berkeley
• Gus Speth, Dean, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
• William Taylor, President, Atlantic Salmon Federation
• Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Founder, Deep Ecology Foundation, first CEO of Patagonia Clothing Co. and holder of the world’s largest privately owned land preserve in Chile and Argentina.
• Alvaro Ugalde, chief environmental officer of the Foundation for U.S.-Costa Rica Cooperation
• Dr. J. Bruce Wallace, Professor of Entomology and Ecology, University of Georgia
• George Woodwell, Founder and Director, Woods Hole Research Center