Larry NielsenLarry A. Nielsen is Professor of Natural Resources at North Carolina State University. He has worked in land grant universities--including earlier tenures Virginia Tech and Penn State--for forty years, as a faculty member and administrator, eventuall becoming provost of North Carolina State University before returning to teaching and writing in 2009. He is a Fellow and Past President of the American Fisheries Society. He is author, coauthor, or coeditor of six books, including Ecosystem Management, published by Island Press, and Provost, a memoir and an analysis of university administration. Among many professional service roles, he served on the board of directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment for more than a decade. With Sharon, his wife of forty-seven years, he lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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