Dr. William Schlesinger will be the Montana Institute on Ecosystems Distinguished Visiting Lecturer this fall. Dr. Schlesinger is the President Emeritus of the Cary Institute on Ecosystem Studies, coauthor of over 200 scientific papers on subjects of environmental chemistry and global change, author of the widely-adopted textbook Biogeochemistry: An analysis of global change (Academic Press, 2nd ed. 1997). His research has been featured on NOVA, CNN, NPR, and on the pages of Discover, National Geographic, the New York Times, and Scientific American. Schlesinger has testified before U.S. House and Senate Committees on a variety of environmental issues.