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Dr. Mark W. Schwartz (b. 1958) is professor emeritus of Environmental Science & Policy at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Schwartz was born in Tulsa Oklahoma, but shortly thereafter moved to Bloomington, Minnesota. He graduated High school from St. Thomas Academy (Mendota Heights) and with a bachelor's degree from the University of St. Thomas(St. Paul) in 1976 and 1980, respectively. Schwartz earned an MS in Ecology from the University of Minnesota in 1985 and a Phd in Biology from The Florida State University in 1990. From 1990-1994, Schwartz was a Assistant Professional Scientist at the Illinois Natural History Survey. He worked at the University of California - Davis from 1994 to 2021, retiring at full professor.

Dr. Schwartz is a fellow of the Ecological Society fo America. Dr. Schwartz has served as an editor for numerous conservation journals including: Biological Conservation (North American Editor, 1998-2003); Ecology Letters (Handling editor, 2003-2007), Conservation Letters (Senior Associate Editor, 2014-2018), Conservation Science and Practice (Founding Editor in Chief 2018-2022, handling editor, therafter), Conservation Biology (Handling editor, 2022- ). Dr. Schwartz has served the Society for Conservation Biology as a member of the governing board (2007-2009), Governance Committee (2012-2015) and Publications Committee (2016-2018; 2020-2022).

Dr. Schwartz was involved in graduate education as the Chair of the UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group (2004-2009) and the Environmental Policy and Management Graduate Group (2020-2021), which he helped found as the Director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment (2009-2016). Dr. Schwartz serves on the board of COMPASS Science Communication (2022- ) and is on the California Natural And Working Lands Advisory Committee of the Department of Resources (2022-).

Dr. Schwartz's research interests lie predominanty in the areas of endangered species management, wildfire management of western North American forests, and conservation planning and decision-making. He is the author of three books; a Plant ecology text (Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 3rd edition, Benjamin Cummings, 1998); an edited volume on praire conservation (Conservation in Highy Fragmented Landscapes, Chapman and Hall, 1997) and another edited volume on plant conservation (Population Vilability in Plants, Spinger-Verlag, 2003). He has authored over 150 peer reviewed journal papers and several popular articles in places such as Science and the Stanford Social Innovations Review.