research on the pathologies of krill and marine isopods in the waters of Admiralty Bay, King George Island (one of the South Shetlands of the Antarctic Peninsula), joined the sixth Brazilian expedition to Antarctica (1988), and lived at that nation's Comandante Ferraz Base. This experience was chronicled in The Crystal Desert, which won the Burroughs Medal, the PEN Martha Albrand Award and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Grinnell College Since 1991 Campbell has been a professor of biology, chair of environmental studies and Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment at Grinnell College. From 1994-2007 he and his Grinnell students conducted studies on the historical ecology of the Yucatec, Mopan and Kekchi Maya of Belize, using quantitative methods to test the long-held hypothesis that the Maya Forest is anthropogenic, even suggesting that its species composition was due to post-contact ranching. In 2010 Campbell extrapolated this controversial hypothesis to Amazonia, presenting evidence that pre-Columbian Native Americans caused a large-scale extinction of botanical diversity before the Europeans arrived. Books The Ephemeral Islands. 1977. Macmillan. London. ASIN: B0000EH0ZI Floristic Inventory of Tropical Countries. (coedited with H. D. Hammond). 1989. New York Botanical Garden. The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. 1992. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. Islands in Space and Time. 1996. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. A Land of Ghosts. 2006. Houghton Mifflin. Boston. Honors and awards Guggenheim Fellowship (1989; General Nonfiction) Burroughs Medal (1994) Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award (1993) PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction (1993) Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction (2005) Distinguished Alumni Award, Kalamazoo College (1995) Elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society, the Explorers Club Appointed, the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). Rumored to be the influence for the Dos Equis advertising campaign featuring "The Most Interesting Man in the World." References 1949 births American non-fiction environmental writers American ecologists American environmentalists Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Grinnell College faculty John Burroughs Medal recipients Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Kalamazoo College alumni Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Writers from Decatur, Illinois University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Living people