Steven Handel

Steven Neil Handel (born January 29, 1945 in Brooklyn) is an American educator and restoration ecologist. Handel is currently Distinguished Professor of Ecology at Rutgers University and Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Steven Handel
Born
Steven Neil Handel

(1945-01-29) January 29, 1945
Brooklyn, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
Ecologist
Spouse(s)Joan Gang (m. 1973)[1]
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University
Cornell University
ThesisPopulation Biology of Three Woodland Carex Species (1976)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of South Carolina
Yale University
Rutgers University
Main interestsPlant ecology
Pollination
Restoration ecology[2]

Career

A native of Brooklyn, Handel received a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Columbia University (1969) and a Master's degree (1974) and Doctor of Philosophy (1976) in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University.

Handel began his professorial career as a biology professor at the University of South Carolina, Yale University—where he also held the post of director of the Marsh Botanical Garden—and Rutgers University. In 1996, he was promoted by Rutgers to a full professor of ecology and was named director of their Center for Urban Restoration Ecology.

Handel was the lead ecologist for the restoration of Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California, and his other projects include Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the landscape for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Awards

References
  1. https://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/krakow/families/hecht.html
  2. https://deenr.rutgers.edu/faculty/steven_handel.html
  3. https://www.asla.org/2009awards/index.html
  4. https://www.ser.org/page/pastrecipients
  5. https://www.asla.org/2015awards/index.html
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