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History and Location
History
The Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology (CONS) Program originally takes its name from the Pew Charitable Trust funding initiative that led to its development. We received a two-year planning grant from Pew, 1988-89, to design our program. We called upon practitioners and potential employers in the Washington, D. C. conservation and development communities to help us to choose the core courses for the program, and to implement the required internship and scholarly paper requirements. We were approved as a graduate program in the spring of 1991 and graduated our first students in 1992.
Directors Emeritus
David Inouye
Dr. Inouye's research has focused on a variety of projects at the Rocky
Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado but has also included field
work in Australia, Austria, and Costa Rica. His long-term association
with a field site has made possible studies that span 30+ years on
variation in flowering phenology of wildflowers, the population biology
of several species of plants, and the population biology of
hummingbirds. Dr. Inouye has also worked on resource partitioning in
bumblebees, ant-plant mutualisms, the cost of reproduction of glacier
lilies, and the population biology of flies and the flowers they visit
for pollen and nectar.
Jim Dietz
Dr.
Dietz is a conservation biologist and behavioral ecologist. He defines
conservation biology as the emerging discipline that focuses
theoretical concepts derived from studies of ecology and evolutionary
biology on problems related to extinctions, biological diversity, and
the maintenance of ecological processes. He is currently involved in
multidisciplinary conservation projects targeting several species of
endangered canids and primates in Brazil. His research interests
include the effects of environmental resources on mating systems and
reproductive success of primates.
Location
The CONS program's proximity to downtown Washington D.C. is a major strength as students network and become affiliated with leading conservation organizations during their time at UM. The University of Maryland is unique in its proximity to both state and federal capitals, as well as many of the major non-government organizations (NGOs), and federal agencies that dominate national and international conservation efforts. These places are the source of most of the policy that now underlies conservation efforts, and have become the source of internships, seminar speakers, and job opportunities for most of our graduates. The CONS office is found in the Biology-Psychology Building.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Driving Directions:
Coming South-bound (from the Capital Beltway I-495) on US Rt. 1, turn right onto Campus Drive. Keep straight around the traffic circle and turn right at the stop sign at the top of the hill just past Stamp Student Union on your right. Follow the signs for Stamp Student Union/Visitor Parking. After parking, visitors must pre-pay for windshield parking passes at designated terminals.
Metro Directions:
The campus can be easily accessed from the Metro via the Green Line, College Park station. A free UMD Shuttle (Route 104) runs frequently between the metro and Stamp Student Union. When you exit the metro station, the Shuttle will be parked in front of the station slightly to the left.
Once You Are on Campus:
From Stamp Student Union, cross Union Lane. Walk across the Union Lane Garage parking lot and enter in the side door of Cole Field House toward the back of the building, right off the parking lot. The CONS Office is in the MEES Suite (down the hall on the right) in Suite 0105.
You can get a campus map at the information desk in Stamp Student Union, or print one at the following link. http://www.transportation.umd.edu/pdf/2006pdfmap.pdf
Contact the CONS program
Email: consoffice@umd.edu
Telephone: 301-405-7409
Fax: 301-314-9358
Note: The CONS Office is closed during semester breaks and whenever the university is closed.
