Dr. John T. Tanacredi, Ph.D., Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Former Director of CERCOM (Center for Environmental Research and Coastal Oceans Monitoring), at Molloy University, will give a talk on
his latest book, The Redesigned Earth: A Brief Review of Ecology for Engineers, as if the Earth Really Mattered.
The book provides engineers with the problem-solving methods ecologists use to conserve natural systems, introduces conservation biology and ecology as a mainstay concept of engineering education, and contains practical life-experience case studies based on a 47-year career in ecology and teaching at the university level.
Tanacredi, a former Research Associate at the Wildlife Conservation Society, Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation-Osborn Laboratories of Marine Science; visiting scientist at The American Museum of Natural History in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology; Research Associate at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; and co-chair of the Conservation Committee of the Explorers Club. He was a Research Ecologist for 26 years in the National Park Service, serving as Chief of the Division of Natural Resources and as one of the NPS’s Coastal Natural Resource Specialist duty stationed for 9 years at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
From 1968 to 1970 he was a U.S. Navy Flight Meteorologist “Hurricane Hunter” and received his doctorate in Environmental Health Engineering, from The Polytechnic University, today NYU Polytechnic (1988). He has led many international academic travel programs to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Iceland/Italy, Sicily, Easter Island, and Japan.