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New Educational Website from Dan Botkin

October 18, 2020 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

THE INSTITUTE FOR PRESERVATION OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR DEMOCRACY

Using Dan's new online book Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, the website attempts to teach the student how to think, not what to think. Buy the Book … [Read more...]

How to buy a copy of Strange Encounters

August 11, 2020 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

Strange Encounters cover

Two ways to buy the book Follow this link to BUY FROM AMAZONDIRECTLY FROM ME (PERSONALLY SIGNED COPY)Contact me at dan@danielbbotkin.com and I will invoice you directly via PayPal. This way I can send a signed copy. Price: $20.00 About Strange Encounters Traveling has been part of my life. I have worked for many decades trying to understand how nature works and … [Read more...]

Dr. Daniel Botkin Selected as Environmental Scientist of the Decade by the International Association of Top Professionals

December 20, 2019 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

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United States, New York, New York - 12/16/2019 (PRDistribution.com)Dr. Daniel B. Botkin, Professor Emeritus of Biology for UC Santa Barbara, previous Faculty for Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Former Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami, and former Chairman for the University of California’s Environmental Studies Program, has just … [Read more...]

INTERESTED IN WHALES? SEE OUR LONG TERM RESEARCH ON BOWHEADS

July 9, 2019 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

Bowhead Whale

Interested in Whales? With anthropologist and Arctic Explorer John Bockstoce, I did research on Bowhead whales using logbooks from Yankee whaling ships hunting that species from 1849 to 1915. We learned each year how many whales were caught and how the bowhead whale population changed over that time. We also were able to compare where the Yankee whalers saw the sea ice southern … [Read more...]

Environmental Scientist of the Year

June 3, 2019 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

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Dr. Daniel B. Botkin, is a Professor Emeritus of Biology for UC Santa Barbara, previous Faculty for Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Former Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami, and former Chairman for the University of California’s Environmental Studies Program. He has just recently been selected as Top Environmental Scientist of the Year … [Read more...]

Polar bears are still claimed to be endangered: Are they? Fact and fantasy

January 16, 2017 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

Polar Bears

Get ready for International Polar Bear Day. The N Y Times reported last December 20th that the conservation organization Polar Bears International, has so designated this February 27.The debate over whether polar bears are an endangered species continues since it was made into a major environmental issue in the United States by Al Gore's 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth. … [Read more...]

25 Myths that are Destroying the Environment: My New Book

October 17, 2016 By Daniel Botkin 2 Comments

Just Published! For decades, environmental scientist and conservationist Daniel B. Botkin has studied the world around us. He has traveled the globe observing nature and the human impact on the environment, and now he has collected his keen observations into this accessible and informative book.25 Myths That Are Destroying the Environment explores the many myths … [Read more...]

How Many Hours Does a Whale Sleep? Folklore Determines “Science”

July 24, 2015 By Daniel Botkin Leave a Comment

Beluga Whale

Excerpt from Strange Encounters: Adventures of a Renegade Naturalist by Daniel B. Botkin.How many hours does a whale sleep?" I asked into the telephone receiver. If anybody could have seen my red face, he would have known how embarrassed I felt asking this question. I was working as a research scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, … [Read more...]

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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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