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Eleanor Sterling Discusses Importance of Biodiversity

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Channel: American Museum of Natural History · 2010 · Science & Technology

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Eleanor Sterling, director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, has conducted surveys, behavioral research, and ecological studies of primates, whales, sea turtles, and other animals. With her staff at the CBC, she has translated the information gleaned from research into recommendations for conservation managers, decision-makers, and educators. Sterling has also studied biodiversity and the history of land use in Vietnam, leading to the publication of the award-winning Vietnam: A Natural History, co-authored with two CBC colleagues and published by Yale University press in 2006.

Sterling has recently started blogging from a remote mountain in Vietnam as she and colleagues look for a highly endangered primate, the grey-shanked douc (Pygathrix cinerea).  Sterling takes readers along on the expedition by posting stories about her field adventures, conservation work, and discoveries to The New York Time's' "Scientist At Work: Note from the Field" blog.

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