Don Melnick
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Don J. Melnick is an environmental biologist and conservationist. He holds the position of Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Conservation Biology at Columbia University, in addition to serving as the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), a consortium of organizations including Columbia, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Preservation Society, and Wildlife Preservation Trust International. He is also co-chair of the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, charged with reporting on the Millennium Development Goals for global environmental sustainability to the Secretary General. Melnick received his Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from Yale in 1981, and became one of Columbia's youngest tenured faculty members, as well as the youngest person ever to serve as chair of Columbia's Anthropology Department.
