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Jon Christensen
Research Fellow
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jon.christensen@stanford.edu
(650) 320-9504 (phone)
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Stanford University
Encina Hall E500
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of conservation, the science of conservation biology, and measuring conservation.
Jon Christensen is currently a research fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy and is working with Richard White in the Department of History on a Ph.D. in American History and the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. He is examining the history of conservation, the science of conservation biology, and measuring conservation. He was also a Knight Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 2003.

Christensen has an extensive background in science writing and environmental journalism and since 1996, has been a free-lance contributor to The New York Times, and to numerous other newspapers, journals and radio and television shows.

+HTML+Personal URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~jonallan/
Publications
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If the world is your oyster, you're at fault

Jon Christensen
San Francisco Chronicle (2007) +HTML+
 

Conservation vs. Development in the Western United States

Jon Christensen
The Bill Lane Center for Study of the North American West (2006) +HTML+

A Definitive Lay of the Land: 45 American writers explore the words we use to describe the vast, varied territory we inhabit

Jon Christensen
San Francisco Chronicle (2006) +HTML+

It all started with a chip and a 'wild expansionist'

Jon Christensen
San Francisco Chronicle (2005) +HTML+
 

Schwarzenegger: The Newest Progressive

Margaret O'Mara, Jon Christensen
Tide Pools (2005) +HTML+