Lee Hannah - Biography

Biography

Lee Hannah received his B.A. in Biology with High Honors in June 1978 from the University of California at Berkeley. His honors thesis was “Renewable Energy Potentials and Impacts". Hannah received his Doctorate in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA in June 1985. His dissertation was “Protection of Hawaii’s Native Birds in Geothermal Energy Development,”. Since 2000, Hannah has been a Senior Researcher in Climate Change Biology at Conservation International. Since 2004, he has also been working as a visiting researcher and adjunct professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His classes include Climate Change Biology, Landscape Ecology, and Conservation Planning (2). Hannah collaborates with the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute at Kirstenborsch (in Cape Town) to study biodiversity changes as a result of global warming (4).

Hannah is involved in three societies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Ecological Society of America, and the Society for Conservation Biology. He holds many honors and awards, including being a National Merit Scholar in 1974; Environmental Science and Engineering Class President in UCLA from 1981–82; the American Institute of Biological Sciences Congressional Fellow in Washington D.C. from 1986–87; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Science and Diplomacy Fellow, in Washington D.C. from 1987-89.