Curt Stager, Ph.D.

Draper-Lussi Endowed Chair in Lake Ecology and Paleoecology

1985 Ph.D. Zoology & Geology, Duke University

Curt Stager is a scientist, educator, and author whose research and outreach deals with climate change, human connections to the natural world, and environmental history in Africa, the Adirondacks, and elsewhere. His work has been published in prominent journals including Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, his writings for the public have appeared in periodicals such as National Geographic and The New York Times, and he co-hosted Natural Selections, a weekly science program on North Country Public Radio, for 30 years. Curt is also the author of four books, most recently "Still Waters: The Secret World of Lakes." He currently teaches natural sciences at Paul Smith’s College, where he holds the Draper-Lussi endowed Chair in Paleoecology and Lake Ecology. In 2013, the Carnegie-Case Foundation named him Science Professor of the Year for New York State. (More information at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Stager)