Measuring Biodiversity for Addressing the Global Biodiversity Crisis: Summary of the 2025 US-UK Scientific Forum (2025)
Chapter: Acknowledgments
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE FOLLOWING DISTINGUISHED EXPERTS SERVED ON THE FORUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Gene Robinson, NAS,1 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Co-Chair
William Sutherland, FRS,2 University of Cambridge, Co-Chair
Neil Burgess, FRS, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Scott Edwards, NAS, Harvard University
Julia Patricia Gordon Jones, Bangor University
Pamela Soltis, NAS, University of Florida
David Tilman, NAS, University of Minnesota
This summary was prepared by Joe Alper and is based on the presentations and participant discussions at the US-UK Scientific Forum on Measuring Biodiversity for Addressing the Global Biodiversity Crisis, which took place at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, on May 21–22, 2025. The document was reviewed in draft form by Gene Robinson and William Sutherland. Pamela Soltis served as the review monitor to ensure that review comments were incorporated appropriately into the final version of this summary. Support for this activity was provided by the George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Sciences.
Copyright 2025 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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1 Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
2 Fellow of The Royal Society.
