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4/4/95                  Bob Lowry 

SMITHSONIAN DIRECTOR TO GIVE WEAVER LECTURE AT AUBURN APRIL 10
     AUBURN -- Francisco Dallmeier, director of the Smithsonian
Institution Man in the Biosphere Biological Diversity Program, will
speak at Auburn University on Monday, April 10.
     Dallmeier will speak as part of the Weaver Lecture Series in
Forestry on the topic of "Toward a Global Network of Forest
Biodiversity Monitoring Sites." His lecture -- free and open to the
public -- will be at 3 p.m. at the AU Hotel and Conference Center,
Meeting Room I.
     At the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, Dallmeier
establishes and coordinates international biological diversity
conservation programs in tropical and subtropical areas. He is
responsible for more than 40 field and classroom courses in
conservation, biology, wildlife and woodland management, research
methods and long-term monitoring of biodiversity.
     Prior to joining the Smithsonian in 1981, Dallmeier was an
environmental planner and ecologist coordinator for a Venezuelan
engineering company. He is also the former director and mammals
department coordinator for the LaSalle Museum of Natural History in
Caracas.
     Dallmeier received his M.S. and Ph.D. in wildlife and natural
resources management from Colorado State University.
     The Weaver Lecture Series in Forestry at AU is sponsored
through an endowed gift from Earl H. and Sandra H. Weaver of
Brewton. 
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