About the speaker:
Dr. Steve Stephenson recently retired from the University of Arkansas, where he taught courses in plant biology, plant ecology, forest ecology, and mycology as well as serving as the mentor for twenty-two graduate students who received their M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1977 and was on the faculty of Fairmont State University for 27 years before moving to the University of Arkansas. During his academic career, he has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Himachal University in India, a Visiting Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division, and the William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His studies of myxomycetes (slime molds) have taken him to all seven continents and every major type of terrestrial ecosystem. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books, more than 500 book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals, and fourteen science fiction novels.
8 сен 2024