Peter Vaughan

Peter is a research consultant who since 1995 has worked extensively with Rare, a biodiversity conservation non-governmental organization based in Arlington, VA. Rare uses entertainment-education and social marketing programs to motivate behavioral changes that promote biodiversity conservation throughout the developing world. Peter graduated with an A.B. in biology from Dartmouth College, and then spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Solomon Islands, where he helped to establish a nesting sanctuary for the endangered hawksbill turtle. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in Ecology and Behavioral Biology. Following graduate school, he has combined his dual interests in conservation and human population growth with experience in both academic and applied institutions. He taught for ten years at Macalester College, where he had a joint appointment in Biology and Environmental Studies, and has been a research associate at the University of New Mexico. His other consultancies have included Population Communications International, an NGO based in New York, and Ohio University, for whom he has designed and implemented research on entertainment-education radio and television programs in both Africa and Asia that have dealt with family planning promotion, HIV/AIDS prevention, and biodiversity conservation. He has also consulted for Minnesota Planned Parenthood to evaluate their family planning peer-education programs. Ph.D. , Ecology and Behavioral Biology University of Minnesota A.B. , biology Dartmouth College