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Science, Open Space, And The Future Of Our National Parks

November 30, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

The following was originally published a guest column for National Parks Traveler and is reprinted here with permission. For additional information about National Parks Traveler, you can read the original article here.A Note from From National Parks Traveler Editor: Late in August the National Park Service released the Revisiting Leopold report, a 23-page report summoned by … [Read more...]

Daniel Botkin A Guest PRX Radio Program IdeaSphere with Guy Rathbun

November 14, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Dan recently appeared as a guest on IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices, distributed nationally by Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and hosted and produced by Guy Rathbun. The topic of the program was Dan's latest book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered. Specifically, Dan and Guy discussed how our Judeo-Christian belief in the balance of nature … [Read more...]

Daniel Botkin on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC Radio

October 3, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Dan appeared WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820, New York's flagship public radio stations, as a guest on The Leonard Lopate Show today, Wednesday, October 3, 2012.On the program, Dan discussed his new book, The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered, and explained that in a world constantly confronted by global environmental problems, establishing effective … [Read more...]

The Risk of Losing Solar Manufacturing Abroad

August 22, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Recently, Dan had an opportunity to sit down with students from the Energy: Today and Tomorrow class at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. The course, taught by Department of Geography lecturer Tracy Edwards, examines many of the questions and challenges of alternative energy discussed in Dan's book Powering The Future: A Scientist's Guide to Energy … [Read more...]

Thoreau’s Race in the Maine Woods

August 1, 2012 By richf 1 Comment

With the London Olympics in full swing, and the always amazing track and field events about to get underway, I was reminded of a summer race of a different kind.This race took place 155 years ago today, on August 1, 1857, and involved none other than Henry David Thoreau—hardly an Olympian, but still someone who enjoys a good contest.The story of Thoreau’s race in the … [Read more...]

Two Botkin Classics Arrive in Ebook Format

May 25, 2012 By richf Leave a Comment

Two of Dan Botkin's classic works about explorers' Lewis and Clark are being released in ebook format for the very first time. Passage of Discovery: The American Rivers Guide to the Missouri River of Lewis and Clark (now available) and Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today (available June 2012) are available for purchase wherever … [Read more...]

From Daniel B. Botkin, Ph.D

Daniel Botkin
I believe we are mostly on the wrong track in the way we try to deal with the environment. Everything I do, study, learn, and advise about the environment is different from the status quo. Throughout my career, I have tried to understand how nature works and use that understanding to figure out how we can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

My process over the past 45 years has been to look carefully at the facts, make simple calculations from them (sometimes simple computer models) and then tell people what I have learned. It’s surprising how rarely people bother to look at the facts. This has surprised me every time I’ve started a new ecology research project or work on an environmental issue.

In the course of my work and studies, I have learned many things and I want to tell you about them. That is the purpose of this website.

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Books by Dan Botkin

The Moon in the Nautilus Shell  Strange Encounters
Powering the Future  No Man's Garden
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Jabowa III Forest Model


Jabowa Forest Model
Jabowa Forest Model for Windows 7.
This forest model, used around the world, was developed first in 1970 by Daniel B. Botkin, James F. Janak and James R. Wallis

JABOWA remains the most completely detailed and well validated forest growth model available, accounting for 95% or more of the variation in real forests where it has been tested.

The book Forest Dynamics: An Ecological Model (available as an eBook) provides a complete description of the model and the rationales behind its development.

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Sea Ice Study

The Bockstoce and Botkin Historical Sea Ice Data Study has a new home at the University of Alaska website. The data include more than 52,000 daily observations in an unbroken 65 year record from 1849 – 1914.

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