Highlights - MARK BURGMAN - Author of “Trusting Judgments: How to Get the Best Out of Experts”

“I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Conservation Biology. It is the original journal for the Society for Conservation Biology, which was established in the United States in the 1980s. And the journal was created to provide a home with substantive scientific advances that form the basis for the underpinnings of action and conservation science. So we try and provide the techniques, the procedures, and the scientific experiments that underpin the actions we take to conserve biodiversity globally. It's been running since June 1985, and I've been the editor for 12 years. We receive between 900 and 1,000 papers a year. We publish about 150 or 200 of those. The topics are tremendously variable. They range from straight ecology through mathematical modeling to the psychology of human behavior and the ethics of trophy hunting, and everything in between. And so, it's a wonderfully diverse and interesting journal to read.”