Dr. Nora Bynum is Project Director of the Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP) and Associate Director for Capacity Development for the CBC. Nora provides global leadership for the NCEP project, including academic coordination and management of the module development, testing, and dissemination process. For the past 15 years, Nora has worked on international capacity building and training in biodiversity conservation and ecology and environmental studies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. She has conducted fieldwork in tropical forests in Indonesia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Her current research interests are in seasonality and phenology of tropical canopy trees, particularly as it relates to global change, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, particularly in undergraduate and experiential contexts. Nora is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and at Duke University, where she has taught for the last several years. Previously, 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. Prior to joining the CBC in 2002, she served as Academic Director for the Organization for Tropical Studies. Nora serves as Chair of the Board of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER), and as Director of Education for the Austral and Neotropical Section of the Society for Conservation Biology. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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.