Dr. Nora Bynum is Project Director of the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) and provides overall leadership for the project, including academic coordination and management of the module development, testing, and dissemination process. Nora has specialized in the design and implementation of interdisciplinary and student-active courses in ecology and conservation for the graduate and undergraduate levels, and in the management and oversight of geographically disparate and heterogeneous education and research project teams in the United States, Latin America, and Asia. Her current research interests are in phenology of tropical canopy trees, particularly as it relates to seasonality and global change. Nora is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and at Duke University, where she has taught for the last several years. In 2004-2005 Nora was a Fulbright lecturer at the Instituto de Ecología, A.C., in Xalapa, Mexico, where she taught courses on learner-centered methods of teaching conservation, and on global change. Nora serves as a Board member and Chair of the Science and Education Committee of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER), and on the Education Committee of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB).

Associate Director for Capacity Development / Project Director,
Network of Conservation
Educators and Practitioners

Representative Publications

Hemingway, C, and N Bynum. 2005. The influence of seasonality on primate diet and ranging. In C. van Schaik and D. Brockman, eds., Seasonality in Primates: Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-human Primates. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 57-104.

Bynum, N., and A.L. Porzecanski. 2004. Educación para la Conservación en Bolivia. Ecología en Bolivia 39(1): 1-4.

Bynum, N. 2002. Morphological Variation Within a Macaque Hybrid Zone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 118: 45–49.

Hartshorn, GH, and N Bynum. 1999. Tropical Forest Synergies. Science 286: 2093–2094.

Bynum, EL, DZ Bynum and J Supriatna. 1997. Confirmation and Location of the Hybrid Zone Between Wild Populations of Macaca tonkeana and Macaca hecki in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. American Journal of Primatology 43(3): 181–209.