Nigel Pitman
Nigel holds a joint appointment as Mellon Senior Conservation Ecologist in the Keller Science Action Center and Senior Research Scientist in the Negaunee Integrative Research Center.
Nigel is an ecologist and conservationist with special expertise on Amazonian trees. Since 1994, he has surveyed rainforests, cloud forests, swamps, and savannas across Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and Guyana. A member of the Field Museum's rapid inventory team since 2001, Nigel has helped provide the scientific underpinnings for more than 20 million acres of new parks in the Amazon. He has co-authored more than 170 scientific articles and edited 21 books, and from 2003 to 2008, was resident director of a research station in Amazon Peru.
Education and Work
Nigel received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1993 and a Ph.D. from Duke University in 2000.
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