Professor Stephen Siebert, Fulbright Specialist from W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation University of Montana (UM CFC) is collaborating with Universitas Hasanuddin from November 29 to December 12, 2017. He will present at four seminars, toured UNHAS campus and off-campus facilities, and in collaboration with UNHAS faculty identified potential collaborative teaching and research activities to pursue in the future.

His interests address the ecology and management of traditional land uses and effects that changes in historic social-ecological systems have on ecosystem composition, structure, and function. He has conducted long-term studies in Bhutan, Indonesia, Philippines, Belize, and Greece. He was on the faculty of the College of Forestry and Conservation from 1990-2017 where he taught courses in International Conservation and Development, International Environmental Change, Social Forestry, and Field Courses in Tropical Conservation and Management, and established and directed the M.S degree option in International Conservation and Development. He continues investigations of changes in traditional land use systems and assists with international academic institution and faculty development efforts.