Daniel T. Blumstein is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degrees in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology (Magna Cum Laude), and in Environmental Conservation (Cum Laude) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Animal Behavior at the University of California Davis, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Marburg (Germany), the University of Kansas, and Macquarie University (Australia). Dan has studied behavior and conservation in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States. He has served on endangered species recovery teams, and is a member of the IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group and the Conservation Behavior Committee of the Animal Behavior Society. He is a past editor of the journal Animal Behaviour, and is presently an associate editor of The Quarterly Review of Biology. He is on the editorial boards of Behavioral Ecology and Biology Letters. He spends his summers studying marmot behavior and ecology at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado.He has written four books.An Ecotourist's Guide to Khunjerab National Park (1995) (World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan)Quantifying Behavior the JWatcher Way (2007) with Janice C. Daniel (Sinauer Associates)A Primer of Conservation Behavior (2010) with Esteban Fernández-Juricic (Sinauer Associates)The Failure of Environmental Education (and how we can fix it) (2011) with Charles Saylan (University of California Press).You can learn more about Dan by visiting his UCLA website: www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Blumstein