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Lincoln Pierson Brower (B.A. Princeton University, 1953, Ph.D. Yale University, 1957) is Research Professor of Biology at Sweet Briar College in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology, Emeritus at the University of Florida. His research interests include the overwintering and migration biology of the monarch butterfly, chemical defense, ecological chemistry, mimicry, scientific film making, and the conservation of endangered biological phenomena and ecosystems. Recipient of the Gold Medal of Zoology from the Linnean Society of London, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animal Behavior Society, and the Henry Walter Bates Award for the Biology and Conservation of Tropical Butterflies, Professor Brower has published over 200 scientific papers and edited two books. He has served as Presidents of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Lepidopterists’ Society, and the International Society of Chemical Ecology. He is currently collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund-Mexico and the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation to implement a new comprehensive model to protect the major overwintering sites of the monarch butterfly in Mexico. He has also independently reviewed scientific issues surrounding the Bt corn pollen debate and general problems associated with modern agriculture's negative impact on biodiversity. In January 2002 he and colleagues documented the severe effects of the most damaging storm in 25 years on monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico.
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