H.H. (Hank) Shugart is the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences and the Director of the Center for Regional Environmental Studies at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Georgia in 1971, and worked for the next 13 years in Tennessee — eventually as a Senior Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as a Professor in Botany and the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Tennessee.

In 1984, he moved to his current position at University of Virginia. Dr. Shugart has also served as a Visiting Fellow in the Australian National University (1978-1979, 1993-1994), in Australia's Commonwealth Industrial and Scientific Research Organization, Division of Land Use Research (1982) and Division of Wildlife and Ecology (1993-1994), in the International Meteorological Institute at the University of Stockholm, Sweden (1984), and in the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria (1987,1989). He has served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals including Ecology and Ecological Monographs, Annual Reviews in Ecology and Systematics, Biological Conservation, Landscape Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Forest Science, Global Change Biology and The Australian Journal of Botany.

He is the author of more than 300 publications including 11 books, 60 book chapters and 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Advisory Board
R. Betts : Climate change & impacts
R. Bindschadler : Iced & remote sensing
O. Brown : Oceanography
A. Cerda : Soil systems sciences
M. Dourojeanni : Amazon
L. Fleming : Environmental Health
K. Gaston : Conservation biology
R. Hazlett : Environmental Analysis
I. Iturbe : Hydrology
C.L. Kwa : Sustainable Development
Y. Malhi : Biodiversity
L. Molina : Atmospheric Pollution
W. Steffen : Climate change, Global Scale