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Alan Townsend

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Dr. Alan R. Townsend is a scientist, author, speaker, and dean of the University of Montana’s W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation. He is a highly cited author of more than 140 scientific articles and has served in multiple prominent leadership roles. He was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and a Google Science Communication Fellow and was one of six scientists chosen to be in the Let Science Speak documentary film series, which premiered at the Tribeca TV Festival in September of 2018. He lives in Montana with his family and two ridiculous dogs.

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I flew to Oklahoma to get him. The flat where he was born was above a Tulsa veterinary clinic, and it housed a chaotic perpetual motion machine of a dozen others like him plus one cranky dachshund. His father proudly wore a green diaper festooned with bowtied bones as though it certified his snorting, slobbering monarchy. He gave the puppy a final approving sniff and me a blast of his foul breath

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Alan Townsend’s books

Average rating: 4.15 · 973 ratings · 165 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder 4.15 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making a Living in Europe: Human Geographies of Economic Change 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marquetry Techniques by David Middleton (Goodreads Author), Alan Townsend 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The North-South Divide: Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s by Jim Lewis, Alan Townsend (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Managing the City by John Diamond (editor), Joyce Liddle (Editor), Alan Southern (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“perhaps there is no purer form of love than science. It is an act of profound attention and empathy. It requires a willingness to come back and back and back to a problem, no matter how numerous or embarrassing your failures, in the quest for a solution. Science is the discipline of figuring out the things one can change and learning how to work with the things one can't.”
― Alan Townsend, This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

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“But like that butterfly, science teaches you that a moment of contraction and chaos—a time when everything seems to be falling apart—is probably temporary. That something surprising and wonderful might lie ahead. You just have to keep yourself in the position to find”
― Alan Townsend, This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

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“I looked at Mount Neva and thought about how for me, Diana had brought a new twist to our lives being just tiny blips in the grand arc of time. She reminded me that while our flashes may be brief, some of them are impossibly bright, and everything that matters is contained in the ways your own light sparks the ones that lie in everybody else.”
― Alan Townsend, This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

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